Bill Text: NY S02664 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the online revenues and expenditures transparency act to provide for the development of a single, searchable budget database website accessible to the public, at no cost.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 2664A [S02664 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02664-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2664--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, PERKINS, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the online revenues and expenditures transparency act The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 184 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 184. Online revenues and expenditures transparency act. 1. Defi- 4 nitions. As used in this section: 5 (a) "Searchable budget database website" shall mean a website that 6 allows the public at no cost to search for, obtain, and aggregate the 7 information identified in this section. 8 (b) "Entity and/or recipients" shall mean any corporation, associ- 9 ation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or any 10 other legal business entity. It shall also include any grantee or 11 subgrantee, contractor or subcontractor, county, city or other local 12 government entity. It shall not include any individual recipient of 13 state assistance. 14 (c) "Agency" shall mean any state department, office, board, commis- 15 sion, bureau, division, institution, or institution of higher education. 16 "Agency" specifically includes any authority created by an act of the 17 state legislature, including those authorities not receiving state tax 18 revenue. This includes individual state agencies and programs, as well 19 as those programs and activities that cross agency lines, and also 20 includes all elective offices in the executive branch of government and 21 the legislature. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03354-02-6