Bill Text: NY A06265 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the "procedure for informed evaluation of state expenditure decreases act of 2018" to require the governor to submit to the legislature and make available to the public evaluations of proposed and enacted state expenditure decreases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A06265 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A06265-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6265--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 1, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing a procedure for the informed evaluation of proposed and enacted state expenditure decreases The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "procedure for informed evaluation of state expenditure decreases 3 act of 2018". 4 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the expenditures 5 of state funds for operations, maintenance, programs, activities and 6 assistance have significant and complex impacts on the economic, social 7 and environmental conditions in both the public and private sectors. 8 Federal funding and matching funds from municipal and private sources, 9 for example, can be affected by changes in levels of state expenditures 10 and negative secondary impacts from cuts like the failure to maintain 11 state property can damage the health, safety and welfare of the people 12 and economy of the state. 13 The legislature further finds that during a volatile economic time 14 decisions are made to cut or impound expenditures, eliminate or downsize 15 programs and/or lay off state employees without adequate evaluation of 16 the consequences thereof. 17 Therefore, the legislature declares that an analytical process should 18 be required and information therefrom should be available to the public 19 when a decrease in state expenditure from funds appropriated in the 20 immediate previous state budget is proposed in a state budget bill, or 21 before a reduction in expenditure or lay off of state employees is 22 imposed during the implementation of an enacted state budget. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02339-03-7A. 6265--A 2 1 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 21-a to 2 read as follows: 3 § 21-a. Informed evaluation of state expenditure decreases. 1. The 4 governor shall submit to the chairman of the senate finance committee 5 and the chairman of the assembly ways and means committee for use of 6 such committees, and provide the legislature and the public for their 7 information, (a) at or prior to the time the budget is submitted, an 8 evaluation pursuant to subdivision two of this section of the direct and 9 indirect economic, social and environmental impacts of any decrease in 10 the amount of the appropriation from the previous fiscal year for any 11 state program, activity or assistance, for local government assistance 12 or for a public purpose by a not-for-profit organization supported, in 13 whole or in part, by state funds, and (b) not less than forty-five days 14 before the implementation of the impoundment of appropriated funds 15 and/or layoff of state employees affecting, directly or indirectly, any 16 state program, activity or assistance, for local government assistance 17 or for a public purpose by a not-for-profit organization supported, in 18 whole or in part, by state funds, an evaluation pursuant to subdivision 19 two of this section of the direct and indirect economic, social and 20 environmental impacts thereof. 21 2. An evaluation of decreases or elimination of state expenditures 22 shall include, but not be limited to: 23 (a) identification of whether such state expenditure would have been 24 used for a statutory mandated purpose, a description of such purpose and 25 an estimate of financial return from such funding; 26 (b) identification of whether such state expenditure would have been 27 used for a non-mandated service; 28 (c) identification of whether there has been or would be a revenue 29 generator multiplier greater than the amount of the state expenditure; 30 (d) identification of the cost to the state, municipalities and/or 31 private sources, if any, that may result from the decrease in state 32 funding or employees, including the loss of matching funds from sources 33 outside state government. In estimating such cost, consideration shall 34 be taken of the ability of the affected state units and their ability to 35 sustain the cuts and loss, if any, of revenue to the state or munici- 36 palities or from the multiplier effect on the private sector; and 37 (e) identification of the estimated net benefit to the state treasury 38 of decreases or elimination of state expenditures and/or the layoff of 39 state employees. 40 3. Not less than twenty days before such evaluation is submitted to 41 the legislature, the governor shall cause to be held a public hearing 42 available by internet webcast on the proposed decrease in state expendi- 43 ture and/or layoff with the opportunity provided to the public for 44 comment by electronic mail. The record of and responses to such hearing 45 shall be included with the submittal of the evaluation to the legisla- 46 ture and shall be available to the public. 47 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
