Bill Text: NY S01290 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for creation of a non-partisan legislative budget office to perform budget analysis to determine the funding levels necessary to the operation of governmental departments and programs and render anticipated revenue estimates for each fiscal year, examine and review all financial information of the state for the purpose of rendering revenue estimates used in determining whether the proposed state budget is balanced, be charged with the duty of rendering anticipated revenue forecast reports to the legislature and the governor for the purposes of facilitating passage of the state budget in a timely manner, provide assistance in determining the fiscal impact of proposed legislation, and submit to the state legislature written estimates of anticipated state revenues on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01290 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01290-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1290
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. AVELLA, KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative law, in relation to creation of the
          legislative budget office
          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 article 5-C
     2  to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 5-C
     4                          LEGISLATIVE BUDGET OFFICE
     5  Section 88-k. Non-partisan legislative budget office.
     6          88-l. Powers and duties of the non-partisan  legislative  budget
     7                  office.
     8    § 88-k. Non-partisan legislative budget office. There is hereby estab-
     9  lished a non-partisan legislative budget office.
    10    §  88-l.  Powers  and  duties  of  the non-partisan legislative budget
    11  office.  1. The non-partisan legislative  budget  office  shall  perform
    12  budget  analysis to determine the funding levels necessary to the opera-
    13  tion of governmental departments and  programs  and  render  anticipated
    14  revenue  estimates for each fiscal year. Such revenue estimates shall be
    15  used exclusively for purposes of determining budget expenditures.
    16    2. The director of the non-partisan legislative  budget  office  shall
    17  examine  and  review  all  financial  information  of  the state for the
    18  purpose of rendering revenue estimates used in determining  whether  the
    19  proposed state budget is balanced.
    20    3.  The  non-partisan  legislative  budget office shall be headed by a
    21  director who shall be appointed by a joint resolution of the senate  and
    22  assembly  for  a  term  of five years. He or she shall devote his or her
    23  full time and effort to the office of director and he or she shall  hold
    24  no  other public office. The director shall receive such compensation as
    25  may be fixed by the office. The director may  appoint  budget  analysts,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00965-01-7
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     1  assistants  and  such other employees as he or she may deem necessary or
     2  desirable, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation within  the
     3  amounts appropriated and made available therefor.
     4    4.  The  non-partisan  legislative budget office shall be charged with
     5  the duty of rendering anticipated revenue forecast reports to the legis-
     6  lature and the governor for the purposes of facilitating passage of  the
     7  state  budget  in  a  timely  manner. The director may request and shall
     8  receive from all public officers, departments, agencies and  authorities
     9  of the state and its political subdivisions, such assistance and data as
    10  shall  be  necessary to project anticipated state revenues for budgetary
    11  purposes.
    12    5. The non-partisan legislative budget office shall provide assistance
    13  in determining the fiscal impact of proposed legislation.
    14    6. The non-partisan legislative budget  office  shall  submit  to  the
    15  legislature  written  estimates of anticipated state revenues on January
    16  fifteenth, April fifteenth, July fifteenth and October fifteenth of each
    17  year.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.