NY State Senate Bill S5475

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 04, 2021	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate
Apr 28, 2021	advanced to third reading
Apr 27, 2021	2nd report cal.
Apr 26, 2021	1st report cal.790
Mar 08, 2021	referred to finance

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S5475 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5472
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §22-c, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S5217, A7388
2017-2018: S1625, S7236, A967, A10631
2019-2020: S3548, A1155

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to five-year capital plans for the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S5475

SPONSOR: STAVISKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE::

To provide five-year capital plans for SUNY and CUNY for the fiscal year
beginning on April 1, 2021.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS::

Section 1. Amends section 22-c of the state finance law to direct the
Governor to submit a five-year capital plan that meets 100 percent of
the critical maintenance needs identified by each public university
system or annually reduces the facility condition index for each univer-
sity system.

Section 2. Provides for an immediate effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As part of the fiscal year 2008-2009 budget, the Legislature enacted a
five-year capital plan with annual critical maintenance appropriations
of $550 million for the State University of New York and $284.2 million
for the City University of New York. These appropriations provided the
State's public colleges and universities with the ability to plan for
capital expenditures and substantially reduce the backlog of critical
maintenance projects. Since the conclusion of that plan in the 2012-2013
budget cycle, the budget process has failed to produce a similarly
robust capital plan for the SUNY and CUNY systems. As such, the academic
facilities at our public colleges and universities, as well as the three
SUNY hospitals, are in danger of not receiving the annual investment
necessary for proper maintenance.

This bill would incorporate capital planning for SUNY and CUNY into the
overall capital plan submitted to the Legislature by requiring that the
Governor submit five-year capital plans for SUNY and CUNY as part of the
Executive Budget. This requirement would ensure that the facilities at
our public institutions of higher education receive the capital funding
necessary to meet their annual critical maintenance needs or reduce the
facility condition index which measures the current condition of facili-
ties requiring capital investment.

Although this bill was vetoed by the Governor in 2015, 2017, and 2018,
this measure is still of the utmost importance. Ensuring, capital fund-
ing for SUNY and CUNY is essential to their ability to continue to
provide exemplary education for students of the State of New York.
Building infrastructure across SUNY and CUNY campuses remains in dire
need of critical maintenance because buildings are crumbling under the
students' feet. This funding will further assist the efforts to reduce
efforts to reduce facility condition indexes.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY::

2020:S.3548A- Passed senate.

2019:S.3548- Passed Senate.

2018:S.7236(Veto319);

2017:S.1625(Veto205);

2015:S.5217/A.7388

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS::

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE::

Immediately.

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5475
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 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 ASSEM-
 BLY, 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 TWENTY-
 TWO AND EVERY FIFTH FISCAL YEAR THEREAFTER, THE GOVERNOR SHALL SUBMIT TO
 THE LEGISLATURE AS PART OF THE ANNUAL EXECUTIVE BUDGET, FIVE-YEAR  CAPI-
 TAL  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 CRIT-
 ICAL 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
 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.

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06570-01-1

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May 4, 2021 - floor Vote

Floor Vote: May 4, 2021

Apr 27, 2021 - Finance committee Vote

Finance Committee Vote: Apr 27, 2021

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S5475 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Toby Ann Stavisky

Current Bill Status - Passed Senate

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May 4, 2021 - floor Vote

Floor Vote: May 4, 2021

Apr 27, 2021 - Finance committee Vote

Finance Committee Vote: Apr 27, 2021

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Joseph P. Addabbo Jr

James Gaughran

Andrew Gounardes

John W. Mannion

Rachel May

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Details

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Summary

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S5475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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