What's happening
This bill requires the governor to submit five-year capital plans for SUNY and CUNY, ensuring full funding for critical maintenance needs.
Why it matters
Mandates long-term planning and transparency. for capital spending at SUNY and CUNY by requiring detailed five-year capital plans, allowing lawmakers and the public to see how maintenance and infrastructure needs are being addressed.
Guarantees full funding for critical maintenance. identified by the universities, aiming to prevent the deterioration of campus facilities, which can impact safety, learning environments, and the long-term financial health of the institutions.
Separates funds for new projects from maintenance needs. , making sure that money for new construction or major initiatives does not reduce the resources available for essential repairs and upkeep.
Introduces a facility condition index (FCI) standard. for measuring and reducing deferred maintenance, pushing for continuous improvement in the physical state of university campuses and requiring data-driven allocation of funds.
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Who cares
SUNY state-operated campuses and CUNY senior colleges
The bill would require five-year capital plans providing for full funding of their systems’ identified annual critical maintenance needs, subject to an alternative when statutory limits prevent full funding.
Governor and state budget director
The governor would submit the plans every five years beginning with the fiscal year starting April 1, 2021, and the budget director would develop alternative plans that annually improve facility condition when statutory limits constrain funding.
SUNY and CUNY administrators
They would help the budget director develop the methodology for distributing capital appropriations among covered campuses and colleges.
State legislators
They would receive the plans with the executive budget, with any funding for new infrastructure or other major capital initiatives excluded from meeting the critical maintenance requirement.
Headline styles
Fund SUNY and CUNY Repairs
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
32 Co-sponsors
- Inez E. Dickens
- Kenneth Zebrowski
- Donna Lupardo
- Charles Barron
- Vivian Cook
- Ellen C. Jaffee
- Jaime R. Williams
- Barbara Lifton
- Steven Englebright
- Charles Lavine
- Anthony D'Urso
- Walter T. Mosley
- Peter Abbate
- Harvey Epstein
- Linda Rosenthal
- Rebecca Seawright
- Michael Blake
- Richard Gottfried
- Albert A. Stirpe
- William Colton
- Kimberly Jean-Pierre
- Jo Anne Simon
- Jose Rivera
- Yuh-Line Niou
- Carmen E. Arroyo
- Kevin Cahill
- Philip Ramos
- Victor M. Pichardo
- David Weprin
- Felix Ortiz
- Tremaine Wright
- Judy Griffin
History
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 1155a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
- Referred to higher education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Require Five-Year College Plans
In Assembly Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1155--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, DICKENS, ZEBROWSKI, LUPARDO, BARRON, COOK, JAFFEE, WILLIAMS, LIFTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, LAVINE, D'URSO, MOSLEY, ABBATE, EPSTEIN, L. ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, STIRPE, COLTON, JEAN-PIERRE, SIMON, RIVERA, NIOU, ARROYO, CAHILL, RAMOS, PICHARDO, WEPRIN, ORTIZ, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to five-year capital plans for the state university of New York and the city university of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 22-c of the state finance law is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7. For the fiscal year beginning on April first, two thousand twentyone and every fifth fiscal year thereafter, the governor shall submit to the legislature as part of the annual executive budget, five-year capital plans for the state university of New York state-operated campuses and city university of New York senior colleges. Such plans shall provide for the annual appropriation of capital funds to cover one hundred percent of the annual critical maintenance needs identified by each university system, and may include funds for new infrastructure or other major capital initiatives, provided that such funding for new infrastructure or other major capital initiatives shall not count towards meeting the overall critical maintenance requirement. In the event that such plan is unable to fund one hundred percent of the critical maintenance needs due to the limitation imposed by article five-B of this chapter, the director of the budget shall develop five-year capital plans whereby the implementation of each capital plan would
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05692-03-0
A. 1155--A 2
annually reduce the overall facility condition index (FCI) for each university system. For the purposes of this subdivision, "facility condition index" shall mean an industry benchmark that measures the ratio of deferred maintenance dollars to replacement dollars for the purposes of analyzing the effect of investing in facility improvements. The apportionment of capital appropriations to each state-operated campus or senior college shall be based on a methodology to be developed by the director of the budget, in consultation with the state university of New York and city university of New York.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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