Bill Text: NY A02255 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring a public hearing on the New York city transit authority annual operating budget
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A02255 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A02255-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2255 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 15, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, MARKEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, DINOWITZ, PHEFFER, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring a public hearing on the New York city transit authority annual operating budget THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1203-c to read as follows: 3 S 1203-C. ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET HEARING; FORM AND CONTENT OF ANNUAL 4 BUDGET. 1. THE AUTHORITY SHALL, AT LEAST SIXTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE 5 ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF ITS ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET, PUBLISH A PRELIMI- 6 NARY BUDGET. AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO ADOPTING ITS BUDGET, THE 7 BOARD OF THE AUTHORITY SHALL, UPON THIRTY DAYS' PUBLIC NOTICE, HOLD A 8 HEARING TO OBTAIN PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITS PRELIMINARY BUDGET. 9 2. THE PRELIMINARY AND ADOPTED BUDGETS SHALL CONSIST OF PROPOSED UNITS 10 OF APPROPRIATION FOR PERSONAL SERVICE AND PROPOSED UNITS OF APPROPRI- 11 ATION FOR OTHER THAN PERSONAL SERVICE FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR. EACH 12 PROPOSED UNIT OF APPROPRIATION SHALL REPRESENT THE AMOUNT PROPOSED FOR 13 PERSONAL SERVICE OR FOR OTHER THAN PERSONAL SERVICE FOR A PARTICULAR 14 PROGRAM, PURPOSE, OR ACTIVITY AND SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A STATEMENT OF 15 THE PROGRAMMATIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTICULAR PROGRAM, PURPOSE, OR 16 ACTIVITY INVOLVED. EACH PROPOSED UNIT OF APPROPRIATION CONTAINED IN THE 17 BUDGET SHALL BE SUPPORTED BY LINE ITEMS SHOWING HOW THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF 18 SUCH UNIT IS DETERMINED. THE UNITS OF APPROPRIATION SHALL BE IN SUCH 19 FORM AND CONTAIN SUCH INFORMATION AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE MEMBERS OF 20 THE BOARD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SUBDIVISION. 21 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to budg- 22 ets of the authority which are proposed at least 6 months after this act 23 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02124-01-9