Bill Text: NY A09766 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires fiscal impact notes on bills affecting political subdivisions including identifying a source of funding for the annual cost of the legislation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-02 - referred to governmental operations [A09766 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09766-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9766
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. MURRAY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AMEDORE,
         BARCLAY,  BLANKENBUSH, BURLING, CORWIN, CROUCH, DUPREY, FINCH, FITZPA-
         TRICK, GRAF, HANNA, HAWLEY, LOSQUADRO, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, MONTESANO,
         OAKS, PALMESANO, RA, RAIA, TENNEY, TOBACCO -- read once  and  referred
         to the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring detailed
         fiscal impact notes on certain legislation
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 51 of the legislative law, as added by chapter 985
    2  of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 51. Fiscal  impact  notes on bills affecting political subdivisions.
    4  1. For the purpose of this section,  the  term  "political  subdivision"
    5  means  any  county,  city,  town,  village,  special  district or school
    6  district.
    7    2. [The legislature shall by concurrent resolution of the  senate  and
    8  assembly prescribe rules requiring fiscal notes to accompany, on a sepa-
    9  rate form, bills and amendments to bills, except as otherwise prescribed
   10  by  such  rules,  which]  A  BILL  THAT would [substantially] affect the
   11  revenues or expenses,  or  both,  of  any  political  subdivision  SHALL
   12  CONTAIN  A DETAILED FISCAL IMPACT NOTE STATING THE ESTIMATED ANNUAL COST
   13  TO THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION AFFECTED AND THE SOURCE OF  SUCH  ESTIMATE.
   14  THE  FISCAL IMPACT NOTE MUST CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE FUNDING SOURCE OF SUCH
   15  ANNUAL COST TO THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. AN OMISSION  OF  SUCH  FUNDING
   16  SOURCE IN THE FISCAL IMPACT NOTE, SHALL INVALIDATE SUCH BILL.
   17    3. Fiscal notes shall not, however, be required for bills: (a) subject
   18  to  the  provisions of section fifty of this chapter, or (b) accompanied
   19  by special home rule requests submitted by  political  subdivisions,  or
   20  (c)  which provide discretionary authority to political subdivisions, or
   21  (d) submitted pursuant to section twenty-four of the state finance law.
   22    4. If the estimate or estimates contained in a fiscal IMPACT note  are
   23  inaccurate  AND RESULT IN AN ANNUAL NET ADDITIONAL COST TO ANY POLITICAL
   24  SUBDIVISION IN EXCESS OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OR AN AGGREGATE ANNUAL NET
   25  ADDITIONAL COST TO ALL POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN THE STATE IN EXCESS
   26  OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS, such inaccuracies shall [not affect, impair  or]
   27  invalidate such bill.
   28    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15050-01-2