NY State Senate Bill 2015-S2272

Senate Bill S2272

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires legislative fiscal impact notes to include objective calculations of anticipated economic impacts for next three years on state or subdivisions; repealer

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2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4390
Current Committee:: Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:: Legislative Law
Laws Affected:: Rpld & add §51, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S3829, A5984
2011-2012: S3456, A6824
2013-2014: S1968, A3480
2017-2018: S2324, A4392
2019-2020: S4732, A6523
2021-2022: S3816, A8621
2023-2024: S1928

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires legislative fiscal impact notes to include objective calculations of anticipated economic impacts for next three years on state or political subdivisions.

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S2272

TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to fiscal impact
notes on bills and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating
thereto

PURPOSE:

To expand disclosure requirements for fiscal impact notes attached to
proposed legislation.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Repeals sections 51 of the legislative law and inserts a new section
51 to require the standing committees of the senate and assembly,
prior to reporting a bill, to append to such bill a fiscal impact note
describing anticipated economic impacts of such bill to the state and
any political subdivision for the three fiscal years following
enactment of such legislation.

JUSTIFICATION:

This Legislature considers many thousands of bills each session, many
of which entail direct or indirect fiscal impacts on political

subdivisions of the state. The legislative law requires sponsors of
bills to describe their fiscal impacts in sponsors' memoranda. These
brief statements often fail to identify the anticipated economic
impacts of legislative proposals. As a result, members vote on bills
about which they may have only partial information, causing state and
local finances to be managed in an uncertain mariner.

The state of California, operating in a political and economic
environment similar to that of New York, requires most legislative
proposals to undergo objective analyses of expected fiscal impacts for
each of three fiscal years following implementation. The California
Assembly and Senate attach to all legislation explicit fiscal
memoranda prepared by the fiscal committees of the respective
legislative houses and distributed to committees and lawmakers when
bills come before them. This bill is based on regulations in
California and other states governing disclosure of fiscal impacts.

Under this chapter, the standing committee to which a bill is referred
must, prior to reporting such bill, prepare an objective fiscal
statement detailing the economic impact of the bill on the state,
county or local governments, school districts or any other political
entities which the bill may affect. This statement, prepared with the
advice of the appropriate fiscal committee of that house, will be
attached to the bill when reported by the standing committee, and will
remain a part of the bill throughout the legislative process. This
will help lawmakers make fully considered decisions on managing the
legislative and economic affairs of the state.

This bill does NOT require cost-benefit analysis, nor govern
regulations promulgated by state agencies. Rather, this bill simply
requires a frank description of the economic impacts of bills to be


given to lawmakers to help them balance social and economic
priorities. Lawmakers should know what expense or savings will result
from enacting legislation put before them. Expanding fiscal note
analysis and disclosure accomplishes this important precursor to sound
fiscal management.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2013-14 - S. 1968 - Investigations & Government Operations
Committee/A. 3480 Government Operations Committee.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Potential savings to the state and its political subdivisions through
more complete disclosure of proposed expenditure prior to adopting
bills with fiscal impacts.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

First of January next succeeding the date the bill becomes a law.

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2272

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. GRIFFO, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, LARKIN, RANZENHOFER --
  read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
  the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations

AN  ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to fiscal impact notes
  on bills and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  51  of the legislative law is REPEALED and a new
section 51 is added to read as follows:
  S 51. FISCAL IMPACT NOTES ON BILLS AFFECTING THE  STATE  OR  POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
  (A)  THE  TERM  "POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION" MEANS ANY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN,
VILLAGE, SPECIAL DISTRICT OR SCHOOL DISTRICT, OR ANY AGENCY,  AUTHORITY,
COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OR INSTRUMENTALITY THEREOF.
  (B)  THE  TERM "QUALIFYING BILL" MEANS ANY BILL OR AMENDMENT TO A BILL
FILED ON OR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION  WHICH  ESTABLISHES
OR  ELIMINATES  A STATE PROGRAM, SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGES SERVICES REQUIRED
TO BE PROVIDED BY SUCH PROGRAM, OR RESULTS IN A CHANGE  IN  REVENUES  OR
EXPENSES OF THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION.
  2.  BEFORE DISCHARGING QUALIFYING BILLS FROM CONSIDERATION, THE SENATE
FINANCE COMMITTEE OR THE ASSEMBLY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE SHALL PREPARE
FOR EACH SUCH BILL A FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT CLEARLY DETAILING THE ESTI-
MATED COST OR SAVINGS ENTAILED BY SUCH BILL TO THE  STATE  AND  AFFECTED
POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION  FOR THE THREE FISCAL YEARS FOLLOWING ADOPTION OF
SUCH BILL. SUCH FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT SHALL ALSO PROVIDE THE SOURCE OR
SOURCES OF SUCH ESTIMATES.
  3. A FISCAL IMPACT  STATEMENT  REQUIRED  TO  BE  PREPARED  UNDER  THIS
SECTION  SHALL BE MADE AND SHALL REMAIN A PART OF THE BILL IT DESCRIBES,
AND SHALL BE AFFIXED TO THE BILL BEFORE IT IS  LAID  UPON  THE  MEMBERS'
DESKS FOR CONSIDERATION.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00039-01-5

S. 2272                             2

  4.    IN  DETERMINING THE FISCAL IMPACTS OF A BILL, THE SENATE FINANCE
COMMITTEE AND ASSEMBLY WAYS AND  MEANS  COMMITTEE  SHALL  ESTIMATE  SUCH
IMPACTS ON THE BASIS OF ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
  (A) INDIVIDUAL POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS;
  (B)  AGGREGATES  OF  POLITICAL  SUBDIVISIONS  EITHER STATEWIDE OR BY A
LESSER GEOGRAPHIC AREA;
  (C) REPRESENTATIVE POLITICAL  SUBDIVISIONS  WITH  RELEVANT  CHARACTER-
ISTICS  SUCH AS POPULATION, AREA, AVERAGE INCOME, WEIGHTED AVERAGE DAILY
ATTENDANCE OF PUPILS, OR ANY OTHER RELEVANT CHARACTERISTICS  APPROPRIATE
TO THE ESTIMATE; OR
  (D)  ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE, CONVENIENT OR ACCESSIBLE GROUPING OF CHAR-
ACTERISTICS OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.
  5. ESTIMATED OR ACTUAL FISCAL IMPACTS  DISCLOSED  UNDER  THIS  SECTION
SHALL  BE REPORTED IN UNITS OF MONEY, SERVICES, PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT, OR
ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE, CONVENIENT OR ACCESSIBLE UNIT OR UNITS  OF  MEAS-
UREMENT.
  6. IF THE ESTIMATES CONTAINED IN A FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT ARE INACCU-
RATE,  SUCH  INACCURACIES  SHALL  NOT  AFFECT, IMPAIR OR INVALIDATE SUCH
BILL.
  7. FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENTS SHALL  NOT  BE  REQUIRED  FOR  BILLS:  (A)
SUBJECT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  FIFTY OF THIS ARTICLE, OR (B)
ACCOMPANIED BY SPECIAL HOME RULE REQUESTS  SUBMITTED  BY  EACH  AFFECTED
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, OR (C) WHICH PROVIDE ONLY DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY
TO  POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS, OR (D) SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-
FOUR OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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Sponsored By

Joseph A. Griffo

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

co-Sponsors

John A. DeFrancisco

Rich Funke

Patrick M. Gallivan

William Larkin

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Details

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2272 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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