Assembly Bill A4772

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts the "one percent spending reduction act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A4772 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
State Finance
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A8913

2021-A4772 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state comptroller to conduct a study to examine, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the budget of all state agencies and create a plan to reduce such budgets by one percent each year over an eight-year period.

2021-A4772 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4772
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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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