NY State Senate Bill 2023-S1928

Senate Bill S1928

2023-2024 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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2023-S1928 (ACTIVE) - Details

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
2011-2012: S3456
2013-2014: S1968
2015-2016: S2272
2017-2018: S2324
2019-2020: S4732
2021-2022: S3816

2023-S1928 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S1928 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S1928

SPONSOR: GRIFFO
 
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 environ-
ment 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 distrib-
uted to committees and lawmakers when bills come before them. This bill
is based on regulations in California and other states governing disclo-
sure 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 state-
ment 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 would result from enacting legislation put
before them. Expanding fiscal note analysis and disclosure accomplishes
this important precursor to sound fiscal management.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2021-22 - S. 3816/A. 8621 - Investigations and Government Operations
Committees.

2019-20 S. 4732 Investigations and Government Operations Committee/A.
6523 Governmental Operations Committee.

2017-18 - S. 2324 Investigations and Government Operations Committee/A.
4392 Governmental 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.

2023-S1928 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1928
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. GRIFFO, GALLIVAN -- 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:
   § 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.
                                                            LBD03023-01-3
 S. 1928                             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.
   § 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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Joseph A. Griffo