Bill Text: NY A10133 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and expenditures made to community based organizations; requires listing by zip code of such grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-21 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10133 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A10133-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                       10133--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 9, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
         to requiring reports by state agencies relating to certain grants  and
         expenditures made to community based organizations
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 164 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 833
    2  of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 164. Reports by and to the department.   1. Each  department,  other
    4  than the executive department, shall make an annual report to the gover-
    5  nor  and  legislature  on  or  before  the fifteenth day of May, for the
    6  preceding calendar year. It shall contain  such  information  concerning
    7  the department and its several divisions, bureaus, offices, agencies and
    8  institutions,  and  their  activities  and affairs, and such recommenda-
    9  tions, as the head of the department shall deem necessary or proper, and
   10  any matters required by express provision of law to be included in  such
   11  report.  A  department also shall make such other and special reports as
   12  the governor or either house of the legislature may require.  From  time
   13  to time, the head of a department may require from any board, commission
   14  or  other  body  in  the  department  or from any subordinate officer or
   15  employee, division or bureau of the department, or from any  institution
   16  subject  to the supervision of the department, or from any agency of the
   17  department, such reports or information as such head may deem necessary.
   18  Unless expressly authorized by the head of the department,  there  shall
   19  be  hereafter  no  separate report, annual or otherwise, directly to the
   20  legislature or governor by any such board,  commission,  body,  officer,
   21  division,  bureau,  institution  or  agency notwithstanding any existing
   22  provision of law authorizing or requiring such report.
   23    2. IN ADDITION TO THE ANNUAL REPORT  REQUIRED  BY  THIS  SECTION,  THE
   24  DIVISION  OF  THE BUDGET SHALL MAKE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE BY MARCH
   25  FIRST OF EACH YEAR RELATING TO  DISTRIBUTION  OF  FUNDS  AND  GRANTS  TO
   26  COMMUNITY  BASED  ORGANIZATIONS  AND  SUCH REPORT SHALL BE POSTED ON THE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02382-06-2
       A. 10133--A                         2
    1  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET WEBSITE IN A MANNER WHICH IS CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE
    2  TO THE PUBLIC.  SUCH REPORT SHALL PROVIDE A LISTING  OF  RECIPIENTS,  BY
    3  ZIP  CODE,  OF  GRANTS,  AWARDS  OR  FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR SERVICES AND
    4  PROGRAMS  WHICH  ARE  MADE  TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES ON A
    5  LOCAL BASIS PURSUANT TO PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
    6    S 2. Section 14 of the state finance law,  the  closing  paragraph  as
    7  further  amended  by  section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of
    8  2011, is amended to read as follows:
    9    S 14. Departmental statements. 1. In addition to the annual department
   10  reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state,  on
   11  or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the
   12  governor  a  statement  of  the  sources, amounts and disposition of all
   13  money received by such department, its divisions,  bureaus  or  officers
   14  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year other than money appropriated for such
   15  department by the legislature or money which was paid by such department
   16  into the treasury. Such statement shall include  a  description  of  the
   17  nature  and  the amount of each fund, if any, then under the supervision
   18  or control of such department or the head thereof or  under  the  super-
   19  vision  or  control  of any division, bureau, commission, board or other
   20  organization therein or under the supervision or control of the head  or
   21  any  other officer of such division, bureau, commission, board or organ-
   22  ization, which was derived from any source whether or not  deposited  in
   23  the  treasury,  a  citation  of  the statute authorizing the creation or
   24  establishment of each such  fund  and  the  nature  and  amount  of  any
   25  payments  made  therefrom during the preceding fiscal year. The director
   26  of the budget in the executive department shall make rules, which  shall
   27  be  approved  by  the governor, regulating the form and contents of such
   28  statements. Copies of such statements shall be simultaneously  furnished
   29  to  the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means commit-
   30  tee for their information.
   31    2. The governor, in such form and with  such  explanation  as  he  may
   32  desire,  shall  transmit  to  the legislature, with the annual budget, a
   33  recapitulation or summary of the information contained  in  such  state-
   34  ments  arranged  under  appropriate  headings  for  each department. The
   35  provisions of this section shall not apply to any funds received by  the
   36  superintendent of financial services [or the superintendent of financial
   37  services]  in  a fiduciary capacity or to the state teachers' retirement
   38  fund, or any state employees' retirement  and  pension  fund,  but  such
   39  exemption  from  the  application  of  this section shall not affect any
   40  other provision of law requiring a report or statement of such funds.
   41    3.  IN ADDITION TO THE ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED  BY  THIS  SECTION,  THE
   42  DIVISION  OF  THE BUDGET SHALL MAKE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE BY MARCH
   43  FIRST OF EACH YEAR RELATING TO  DISTRIBUTION  OF  FUNDS  AND  GRANTS  TO
   44  COMMUNITY  BASED  ORGANIZATIONS  AND  SUCH REPORT SHALL BE POSTED ON THE
   45  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET WEBSITE IN A MANNER WHICH IS CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE
   46  TO THE PUBLIC.  SUCH REPORT SHALL PROVIDE A LISTING  OF  RECIPIENTS,  BY
   47  ZIP  CODE,  OF  GRANTS,  AWARDS  OR  FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR SERVICES AND
   48  PROGRAMS WHICH ARE MADE TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH  PROVIDE  SERVICES  ON  A
   49  LOCAL BASIS PURSUANT TO PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
   50    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.