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period April 1 through April [11] 15, 2024
to state officers and employees of the
executive branch, including the governor,
lieutenant governor, comptroller, and
attorney general, and to employees of the
legislature. This appropriation also
includes funding for payment of health
care and mental hygiene bonuses to eligi-
ble state employees, and payments for
services performed by mentally ill or
developmentally disabled persons who are
employed in state-operated special employ-
ment, work-for-pay or sheltered workshop
programs ................................... 475,000,000
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§ 3. Section 3 of chapter 111 of the laws of 2024, relating to making
appropriations for the support of government, as amended by chapter 114
of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
§ 3. The amount specified in this section, or so much thereof as shall
be sufficient to accomplish the purpose designated, is hereby appropri-
ated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the public
officers and for the purpose specified, which amount shall be available
for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
For the payment of state operations non
personal service liabilities to the execu-
tive branch, including the comptroller,
and the attorney general, and legislature,
incurred in the ordinary course of busi-
ness, during the period April 1 through
April [11] 15, 2024, pursuant to existing
state law and for purposes for which the
legislature authorized the expenditure of
moneys during the 2023-2024 state fiscal
year; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to limit
or restrict the power or authority of
state departments or agencies to conduct
their activities or operations in accord-
ance with existing law, and further
provided that nothing contained herein
shall be deemed to supersede, nullify or
modify the provisions of section 40 of the
state finance law prescribing when appro-
priations made for the 2023-2024 state
fiscal year shall have ceased to have
force and effect .........................
.............................. [22,000,000] 32,000,000
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§ 4. Section 4 of chapter 114 of the laws of 2024, relating to making
appropriations for the support of government, is amended to read as
follows:
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§ 4. The amounts specified in this section, or so much thereof as
shall be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated, is hereby
appropriated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the
public officers and for the purposes specified, which amount shall be
available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
JUDICIARY
For the purpose of making payments for
personal service, including liabilities
incurred prior to April 1, 2024, on the
payrolls scheduled to be paid during the
period April 1 through April [11] 15, 2024
to officers and employees of the judiciary .. 80,000,000
For the payment of state operations nonper-
sonal service liabilities, the sum of
seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000),
or so much thereof as shall be sufficient
to accomplish the purpose designated, is
hereby appropriated to the judiciary out
of any moneys in the general fund or other
funds to the credit of the state purposes
account not otherwise appropriated. The
comptroller is hereby authorized and
directed to utilize this appropriation for
the purpose of making payments for non-
personal service liabilities incurred by
the judiciary from April 1 through April
[11] 15, 2024 ............................... 17,000,000
For the payment of aid to localities liabil-
ities, the sum of twelve million five
hundred thousand dollars ($12,500,000), or
so much thereof as shall be sufficient to
accomplish the purpose designated, is
hereby appropriated to the judiciary out
of any moneys in the general fund or other
funds to the credit of the state purposes
account not otherwise appropriated. The
comptroller is hereby authorized and
directed to utilize this appropriation for
the purpose of making payments for aid to
localities liabilities incurred by the
judiciary from April 1 through April [11]
15, 2024 .................................... 12,500,000
For the payment of employee fringe benefit
programs including, but not limited to,
the judiciary's contributions to the
health insurance fund, the employees'
retirement system pension accumulation
fund, the social security contribution
fund, employee benefit fund programs, the
dental insurance plan, the vision care
plan, the unemployment insurance fund, and
for workers' compensation benefits, the
sum of sixty-seven million dollars
($67,000,000), or so much thereof as shall
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be sufficient to accomplish the purpose
designated, is hereby appropriated to the
judiciary out of any moneys in the general
fund or other funds to the credit of the
state purposes account not otherwise
appropriated. The comptroller is hereby
authorized and directed to utilize this
appropriation for the purpose of making
payments for employee fringe benefit
liabilities incurred by the judiciary from
April 1 through April [11] 15, 2024 ......... 67,000,000
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§ 5. Section 5 of chapter 111 of the laws of 2024, relating to making
appropriations for the support of government, as amended by chapter 114
of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
§ 5. The amounts specified in this section, or so much thereof as
shall be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated, is hereby
appropriated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the
public officers and for the purposes specified, which amount shall be
available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AID TO LOCALITIES
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM .......... [18,170,000] 22,450,000
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General Fund
Local Assistance Account - 10000
For services and expenses related to the
Indian health program. The moneys hereby
appropriated shall be for payment of
financial assistance heretofore accrued or
hereafter to accrue (26840) .................. 6,400,000
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Special Revenue Funds - Federal
Federal USDA-Food and Nutrition Services Fund
Federal Food and Nutrition Services Account - 25022
For various federal food and nutritional
services. The moneys hereby appropriated
shall be available for payment of finan-
cial assistance heretofore accrued (26986)
.............................. [11,770,000] 16,050,000
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§ 6. Section 6 of chapter 111 of the laws of 2024, relating to making
appropriations for the support of government, as amended by chapter 114
of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
§ 6. The amounts specified in this section, or so much thereof as
shall be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated, is hereby
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appropriated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the
public officers and for the purposes specified, which amount shall be
available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
AID TO LOCALITIES
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFIT PROGRAM ...... [375,000,000] 405,000,000
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Enterprise Funds
Unemployment Insurance Benefit Fund
Unemployment Insurance Benefit Account - 50650
For payment of unemployment insurance bene-
fits pursuant to article 18 of the labor
law or as authorized by the federal
government through the disaster unemploy-
ment assistance program, the emergency
unemployment compensation program, the
extended benefit program, the federal
additional compensation program or any
other federally funded unemployment bene-
fit program (34787) ......... [375,000,000] 405,000,000
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§ 7. Section 7 of chapter 113 of the laws of 2024, relating to making
appropriations for the support of government, as amended by chapter 114
of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
§ 7. The amounts specified in this section, or so much thereof as
shall be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated, is hereby
appropriated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the
public officers and for the purposes specified, which amount shall be
available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' SERVICES
AID TO LOCALITIES
BLIND VETERAN ANNUITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ....................... 385,000
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GENERAL FUND
LOCAL ASSISTANCE ACCOUNT - 10000
FOR PAYMENT OF ANNUITIES TO BLIND VETERANS
AND ELIGIBLE SURVIVING SPOUSES. UP TO
$15,000 OF THIS APPROPRIATION MAY BE
TRANSFERRED TO STATE OPERATIONS FOR ADMIN-
ISTRATIVE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
PROGRAM (54606) ................................ 385,000
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VETERANS' BENEFITS ADVISING PROGRAM ............. [154,000] 210,000
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Special Revenue Funds - Other
Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund
Homeless Veterans Assistance Account - 20204
For services and expenses related to home-
less veterans' housing, including liabil-
ities incurred prior to April 5, 2024 ....
................................. [154,000] 210,000
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§ 8. No expenditure may be made from any appropriation in this act,
until a certificate of approval has been issued by the director of the
budget and a copy of such certificate shall have been filed with the
state comptroller, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the
chairman of the assembly ways and means committee provided, however,
that any expenditures from any appropriation in this act made by the
legislature or judiciary shall not require such certificate.
§ 9. All expenditures and disbursements made against the appropri-
ations in this act shall, upon final action by the legislature on appro-
priation bills submitted by the governor pursuant to article VII of the
state constitution for the support of government for the state fiscal
year beginning April 1, 2024, be transferred by the comptroller as
expenditures and disbursements to such appropriations for all state
departments and agencies, as applicable, in amounts equal to the amounts
charged against the appropriations in this act for each such department,
agency, and the legislature and the judiciary.
§ 10. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdi-
vision, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if such
invalid provisions had not been included herein.
§ 11. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2024; provided,
however, that upon the transfer of expenditures and disbursements by the
comptroller as provided in section nine of this act, the appropriations
made by this act and subject to such section shall be deemed repealed.