Bill Text: NY S00854 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-11 - referred to governmental operations [S00854 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00854-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 854 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance 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 § 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 Septem- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02944-01-9S. 854 2 1 ber first of each year relating to distribution of funds and grants to 2 community based organizations as defined in section one hundred fifty- 3 nine-e of this chapter and such report shall be posted on the division 4 of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to the 5 public. Such report shall provide a listing of recipients, by zip code, 6 of grants, awards or funds appropriated for services and programs which 7 are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis pursu- 8 ant to programs established by law. 9 § 2. Section 14 of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 155 of 10 the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 11 § 14. Departmental statements. 1. In addition to the annual department 12 reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state, on 13 or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the 14 governor a statement of the sources, amounts and disposition of all 15 money received by such department, its divisions, bureaus or officers 16 for the preceding fiscal year other than money appropriated for such 17 department by the legislature or money that was paid by such department 18 into the treasury. Such statement shall include a description of the 19 nature and the amount of each fund, if any, then under the supervision 20 or control of such department or the head thereof or under the super- 21 vision or control of any division, bureau, commission, board or other 22 organization therein or under the supervision or control of the head or 23 any other officer of such division, bureau, commission, board or organ- 24 ization, which was derived from any source whether or not deposited in 25 the treasury, a citation of the statute authorizing the creation or 26 establishment of each such fund and the nature and amount of any 27 payments made therefrom during the preceding fiscal year. The director 28 of the budget in the executive department shall make rules, which shall 29 be approved by the governor, regulating the form and contents of such 30 statements. Copies of such statements shall be simultaneously furnished 31 to the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means commit- 32 tee for their information. 33 2. The governor, in such form and with such explanation as the gover- 34 nor may desire, shall transmit to the legislature, with the annual budg- 35 et, a recapitulation or summary of the information contained in such 36 statements arranged under appropriate headings for each department. The 37 provisions of this section shall not apply to any funds received by the 38 superintendent of financial services in a fiduciary capacity or to the 39 state teachers' retirement fund, or any state employees' retirement and 40 pension fund, but such exemption from the application of this section 41 shall not affect any other provision of law requiring a report or state- 42 ment of such funds. 43 3. In addition to the annual report required by this section, the 44 division of the budget shall make a report to the legislature by Septem- 45 ber first of each year relating to distribution of funds and grants to 46 community based organizations as defined in section one hundred fifty- 47 nine-e of the executive law and such report shall be posted on the divi- 48 sion of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to 49 the public. Such report shall provide a listing of recipients, by zip 50 code, of grants, awards or funds appropriated for services and programs 51 which are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis 52 pursuant to programs established by law. 53 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
