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Assembly Bill A2255

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires public hearing on N.Y. City Transit Authority's preliminary annual operating budget prior to adoption; specifies elements for preliminary and adopted budget

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2009-A2255 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง1203-c, Pub Auth L

2009-A2255 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the New York city transit authority publish a preliminary annual operating budget and hold public hearings thereon at least 60 days prior to adoption of annual operating budget; specifies elements regarding proposed units of appropriation for preliminary and adopted budgets including requiring line items of appropriation to support said units and supporting statements of programmatic objectives of particular programs, purposes or activities to support proposed units of appropriation.

2009-A2255 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2255

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. NOLAN, MARKEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  COLTON, DINOWITZ, PHEFFER, WRIGHT -- read once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring a
  public hearing on the New York city transit authority annual operating
  budget

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
section 1203-c to read as follows:
  S 1203-C. ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET HEARING; FORM AND CONTENT OF  ANNUAL
BUDGET.  1.  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL,  AT  LEAST  SIXTY  DAYS PRIOR TO THE
ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF ITS ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET, PUBLISH A PRELIMI-
NARY BUDGET. AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS PRIOR  TO  ADOPTING  ITS  BUDGET,  THE
BOARD  OF  THE  AUTHORITY SHALL, UPON THIRTY DAYS' PUBLIC NOTICE, HOLD A
HEARING TO OBTAIN PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITS PRELIMINARY BUDGET.
  2. THE PRELIMINARY AND ADOPTED BUDGETS SHALL CONSIST OF PROPOSED UNITS
OF APPROPRIATION FOR PERSONAL SERVICE AND PROPOSED  UNITS  OF  APPROPRI-
ATION  FOR OTHER THAN PERSONAL SERVICE FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR. EACH
PROPOSED UNIT OF APPROPRIATION SHALL REPRESENT THE AMOUNT  PROPOSED  FOR
PERSONAL  SERVICE  OR  FOR  OTHER THAN PERSONAL SERVICE FOR A PARTICULAR
PROGRAM, PURPOSE, OR ACTIVITY AND SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A STATEMENT OF
THE PROGRAMMATIC OBJECTIVES  OF  THE  PARTICULAR  PROGRAM,  PURPOSE,  OR
ACTIVITY  INVOLVED. EACH PROPOSED UNIT OF APPROPRIATION CONTAINED IN THE
BUDGET SHALL BE SUPPORTED BY LINE ITEMS SHOWING HOW THE TOTAL AMOUNT  OF
SUCH  UNIT  IS  DETERMINED.  THE UNITS OF APPROPRIATION SHALL BE IN SUCH
FORM AND CONTAIN SUCH INFORMATION AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE MEMBERS OF
THE BOARD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SUBDIVISION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to  budg-
ets of the authority which are proposed at least 6 months after this act
shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02124-01-9

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