S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 8, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
AN ACT to enact the "one percent spending reduction act"
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "one
percent spending reduction act".
§ 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "agency" shall refer
to any agency, department, bureau, commission, board, task force,
committee, public benefit corporation, or public authority of this
state.
§ 3. The state comptroller shall conduct a study to examine, evaluate,
and make recommendations concerning the budget of all agencies in this
state and create a plan to reduce such budgets by one percent each year
over an eight-year period. Such study shall address the following:
(a) identifying any administrative waste, fraud, and abuse in such
agencies;
(b) methods to consolidate programs and create savings, including
identifying programs that overlap or duplicate each other in their
purpose;
(c) recommendations for process reforms to streamline government
administration;
(d) the potential for modernization and technological advances to
assist in such budget reductions;
(e) any other areas of excess spending in such budgets as determined
by the state comptroller; and
(f) the creation of a plan to reduce such budgets by one percent each
year for an eight-year period, without cuts to any social security or
retirement programs or an increase in taxation.
§ 4. Such plan as described in section three of this act shall be made
to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader
of the assembly no later than one year after the effective date of this
act.
§ 5. The state comptroller may request, and is authorized to receive,
any information from any agency to complete this study and report. Such
information received by the state comptroller shall be subject to the
same requirements for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as
are applicable to such state agency's use of such information.
§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.