STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2048 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- 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, in relation to requiring the esti- mated cost of mandated expenditures and appropriations within the body of the bill 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 52-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 52-a. Requirements with respect to bills mandating expenditures or 4 appropriations. A bill that enacts or amends any expenditures or appro- 5 priations shall state the estimated cost of such expenditure or appro- 6 priation in the body of the bill. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 8 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04406-01-1