Bill Text: NY S01928 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires legislative fiscal impact notes to include objective calculations of anticipated economic impacts for next three years on state or political subdivisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01928 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01928-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1928

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GRIFFO, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
          and Government Operations

        AN  ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to fiscal impact notes
          on bills and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  51  of the legislative law is REPEALED and a new
     2  section 51 is added to read as follows:
     3    § 51. Fiscal impact notes on bills affecting the  state  or  political
     4  subdivisions. 1. As used in this section:
     5    (a)  the  term  "political  subdivision" means any county, city, town,
     6  village, special district or school district, or any agency,  authority,
     7  commission, department or instrumentality thereof.
     8    (b)  the  term "qualifying bill" means any bill or amendment to a bill
     9  filed on or after the effective date of this section  which  establishes
    10  or  eliminates  a state program, significantly changes services required
    11  to be provided by such program, or results in a change  in  revenues  or
    12  expenses of the state or any political subdivision.
    13    2.  Before discharging qualifying bills from consideration, the senate
    14  finance committee or the assembly ways and means committee shall prepare
    15  for each such bill a fiscal impact statement clearly detailing the esti-
    16  mated cost or savings entailed by such bill to the  state  and  affected
    17  political  subdivision  for the three fiscal years following adoption of
    18  such bill. Such fiscal impact statement shall also provide the source or
    19  sources of such estimates.
    20    3. A fiscal impact  statement  required  to  be  prepared  under  this
    21  section  shall be made and shall remain a part of the bill it describes,
    22  and shall be affixed to the bill before it is  laid  upon  the  members'
    23  desks for consideration.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03023-01-3
        S. 1928                             2

     1    4.    In  determining the fiscal impacts of a bill, the senate finance
     2  committee and assembly ways and  means  committee  shall  estimate  such
     3  impacts on the basis of any or all of the following:
     4    (a) individual political subdivisions;
     5    (b)  aggregates  of  political  subdivisions  either statewide or by a
     6  lesser geographic area;
     7    (c) representative political  subdivisions  with  relevant  character-
     8  istics  such as population, area, average income, weighted average daily
     9  attendance of pupils, or any other relevant characteristics  appropriate
    10  to the estimate; or
    11    (d)  any other appropriate, convenient or accessible grouping of char-
    12  acteristics or political subdivisions.
    13    5. Estimated or actual fiscal impacts  disclosed  under  this  section
    14  shall  be reported in units of money, services, personnel, equipment, or
    15  any other appropriate, convenient or accessible unit or units  of  meas-
    16  urement.
    17    6. If the estimates contained in a fiscal impact statement are inaccu-
    18  rate,  such  inaccuracies  shall  not  affect, impair or invalidate such
    19  bill.
    20    7. Fiscal impact statements shall  not  be  required  for  bills:  (a)
    21  subject  to  the  provisions  of  section  fifty of this article, or (b)
    22  accompanied by special home rule requests  submitted  by  each  affected
    23  political subdivision, or (c) which provide only discretionary authority
    24  to  political subdivisions, or (d) submitted pursuant to section twenty-
    25  four of the state finance law.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    27  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.