Bill Text: NY S07563 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the sufficiency of itemization in the state budget; requires budget bills to clearly reference the section in the accompanying bill or bills where the corresponding appropriation or reappropriation can be located and requires that the legislature not act upon bills that neglect to do so.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07563-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7563

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- 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  and  the  state  finance  law,  in
          relation to sufficiency of itemization in budget bills

          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 53-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 53-a. Budget item identification and limitation.  All  budget  bills
     4  submitted  by the governor pursuant to section three of article seven of
     5  the constitution, containing proposed legislation, shall clearly identi-
     6  fy a corresponding appropriation within the budget  appropriation  bills
     7  submitted  by  the  governor for that fiscal year. The legislature shall
     8  not act upon budget bills, pursuant to section three of article seven of
     9  the constitution submitted by the governor, unless such bills have  been
    10  sufficiently  itemized by setting forth, with particularity, the section
    11  of the corresponding  appropriation.  Provided,  however,  this  section
    12  shall not apply to proposed legislation that amends the tax law.
    13    § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 24 of the state
    14  finance  law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2007, is amended to
    15  read as follows:
    16    The budget submitted annually by the governor shall be  simultaneously
    17  accompanied by a bill or bills for all proposed appropriations and reap-
    18  propriations  and  for the proposed measures of taxation or other legis-
    19  lation, if any, recommended therein. Such bills shall  be  submitted  by
    20  the governor and shall be known as budget bills. Such budget bills shall
    21  clearly  reference  the  section in the accompanying bill or bills where
    22  the corresponding appropriation or reappropriation can be located.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09391-01-9