Bill Text: NY S00489 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits a member of the legislature from disbursing or making public moneys pursuant to a memoranda of understanding regarding certain line item appropriations prior to such member's election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00489-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           489

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to prohibiting a member
          from disbursing moneys pursuant to memoranda of understanding  regard-
          ing  certain  line item appropriations in the state budget prior to an
          election

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 13
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 13. Limitations on line item appropriations prior to an election. No
     4  member of the legislature shall disburse or make public any single grant
     5  pursuant to memoranda of understanding or any segregation  of  lump  sum
     6  appropriation  for  unspecified  capital  projects  and operating grants
     7  resulting from the state budget process between the  executive  and  the
     8  legislature within sixty days prior to such member's election.
     9    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    10  law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03336-01-1
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