 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3602
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 25, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the budget
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 22 of the state finance law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. Citizens' guide to the state budget. For the fiscal year beginning
     4  in two thousand seventeen, the director of  the  budget's  office,  with
     5  input  from  the  secretary  of state's office on the language, form and
     6  presentation used, shall produce an annual citizens' guide to the  state
     7  budget  revenue and expenditures. The citizens' guide shall be in a form
     8  and substance that is easily readable and understandable by the  general
     9  public.  The  citizens'  guide  shall  include data on each department's
    10  purpose  and  populations  served;  and  where  available,  may  include
    11  performance measures over time, depicted in a graphic format.  The citi-
    12  zens'  guide  shall be produced and released on the secretary of state's
    13  website no later than sixty days after the public release of the  annual
    14  division  of  budget's "enacted budget report". The citizen's guide need
    15  only be prepared in an online or  electronic  format,  and  neither  the
    16  director of the budget's office or the secretary of state's office shall
    17  be required to produce or distribute a paper or hard copy of the guide.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02240-01-7
Relates to the budget

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