Bill Text: NY S02277 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S02277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02277-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2277--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  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.
                                                                   LBD02339-02-7

        S. 2277--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.
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