Bill Text: NY S01050 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S01050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01050-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1050
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, 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    S 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.
                                                                  LBD02845-01-5
       S. 1050                             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
    3  FIFTY-NINE-E  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  AND  SUCH REPORT SHALL BE POSTED ON THE
    4  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET WEBSITE IN A MANNER WHICH IS CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE
    5  TO  THE  PUBLIC.   SUCH REPORT SHALL PROVIDE A LISTING OF RECIPIENTS, BY
    6  ZIP CODE, OF GRANTS, AWARDS  OR  FUNDS  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SERVICES  AND
    7  PROGRAMS  WHICH  ARE  MADE  TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES ON A
    8  LOCAL BASIS PURSUANT TO PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
    9    S 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    S 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
   47  FIFTY-NINE-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW AND SUCH REPORT SHALL BE POSTED ON THE
   48  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET WEBSITE IN A MANNER WHICH IS CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE
   49  TO  THE  PUBLIC.   SUCH REPORT SHALL PROVIDE A LISTING OF RECIPIENTS, BY
   50  ZIP CODE, OF GRANTS, AWARDS  OR  FUNDS  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SERVICES  AND
   51  PROGRAMS  WHICH  ARE  MADE  TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES ON A
   52  LOCAL BASIS PURSUANT TO PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
   53    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.