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This bill requires the Division of the Budget to annually report and publicly post details about state grants and funds distributed to community-based organizations, including recipient zip codes.
Why it matters
Increases transparency and accountability. by requiring detailed, public reporting of state grant money given to community-based organizations, so taxpayers can see how funds are allocated and which communities are being served.
Enables easier tracking of geographic distribution. of state resources by mandating that grants and awards be listed by recipient zip code, potentially highlighting disparities or gaps in funding across different regions or neighborhoods.
Empowers local organizations and residents. with information that can be used to advocate for fairer funding, address unmet needs, or identify which groups are receiving public money for local services and programs.
Supports oversight and policy evaluation. by providing legislators, watchdog groups, and the public with annual, accessible data that can inform future budget decisions or reforms in state grantmaking.
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Report Community Grant Spending
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to governmental operations
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.238
- Referred to finance
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to governmental operations
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–0
Show 4 earlier actions
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.853
- Referred to finance
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Report Community Grant Spending
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Operations · Sponsor Walter T. Mosley
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STATE OF NEW YORK
854
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2019
Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation to requiring reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and expenditures made to community based organizations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 164 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 833 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
§ 164. Reports by and to the department. 1. Each department, other than the executive department, shall make an annual report to the governor and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the preceding calendar year. It shall contain such information concerning the department and its several divisions, bureaus, offices, agencies and institutions, and their activities and affairs, and such recommendations, as the head of the department shall deem necessary or proper, and any matters required by express provision of law to be included in such report. A department also shall make such other and special reports as the governor or either house of the legislature may require. From time to time, the head of a department may require from any board, commission or other body in the department or from any subordinate officer or employee, division or bureau of the department, or from any institution subject to the supervision of the department, or from any agency of the department, such reports or information as such head may deem necessary. Unless expressly authorized by the head of the department, there shall be hereafter no separate report, annual or otherwise, directly to the legislature or governor by any such board, commission, body, officer, division, bureau, institution or agency notwithstanding any existing provision of law authorizing or requiring such report.
2. In addition to the annual report required by this section, the division of the budget shall make a report to the legislature by Septem-
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ber first of each year relating to distribution of funds and grants to community based organizations as defined in section one hundred fiftynine-e of this chapter and such report shall be posted on the division of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to the public. Such report shall provide a listing of recipients, by zip code, of grants, awards or funds appropriated for services and programs which are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis pursuant to programs established by law.
§ 2. Section 14 of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 155 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
§ 14. Departmental statements. 1. In addition to the annual department reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state, on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the governor a statement of the sources, amounts and disposition of all money received by such department, its divisions, bureaus or officers for the preceding fiscal year other than money appropriated for such department by the legislature or money that was paid by such department into the treasury. Such statement shall include a description of the nature and the amount of each fund, if any, then under the supervision or control of such department or the head thereof or under the supervision or control of any division, bureau, commission, board or other organization therein or under the supervision or control of the head or any other officer of such division, bureau, commission, board or organization, which was derived from any source whether or not deposited in the treasury, a citation of the statute authorizing the creation or establishment of each such fund and the nature and amount of any payments made therefrom during the preceding fiscal year. The director of the budget in the executive department shall make rules, which shall be approved by the governor, regulating the form and contents of such statements. Copies of such statements shall be simultaneously furnished to the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee for their information.
2. The governor, in such form and with such explanation as the governor may desire, shall transmit to the legislature, with the annual budget, a recapitulation or summary of the information contained in such statements arranged under appropriate headings for each department. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any funds received by the superintendent of financial services in a fiduciary capacity or to the state teachers' retirement fund, or any state employees' retirement and pension fund, but such exemption from the application of this section shall not affect any other provision of law requiring a report or statement of such funds.
3. In addition to the annual report required by this section, the division of the budget shall make a report to the legislature by September first of each year relating to distribution of funds and grants to community based organizations as defined in section one hundred fiftynine-e of the executive law and such report shall be posted on the division of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to the public. Such report shall provide a listing of recipients, by zip code, of grants, awards or funds appropriated for services and programs which are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis pursuant to programs established by law.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation to requiring reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and expenditures made to community based organizations
Purpose
To require an annual report from the division of the budget that relates to the distribution of funds and grants to community-based organizations that would create greater transparency and accountability by the depart- ment.
Summary of provisions
The bill amends the executive law so that the division of the budget will be required to submit a report to the legislature by September first of each year relating to the distribution of funds and grants to community based organizations. The report will provide a listing of recipients, organized by zip code, of grants, awards or funds appropri- ated for services end programs that are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis. Additionally, the report must be posted on the division of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to the public.
Justification
This legislation would create transparency in departmental spending by providing citizens knowledge of how the government is spending its budg- et and where the money is going to. The additional report that the divi- sion of the budget is required to submit would allow citizens to track the allocation of funds to community based organizations, which locali- ties the funds are going to, and the type of services and programs that are being supported.
Concerns raised by Governor Cuomo in his veto of Senate Bill 372 in 2011, including the reporting procedures of the Statewide Financial System (SFS), are addressed in this new version of the bill.
Legislative history
First introduced in 2010. A previous version of the bill (S.372) was vetoed in 2011.
2011-2012: S.6356 passed Senate;
2013-2014: Died in Committee.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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