§ 17. Reports on financed equipment acquisitions. Within thirty days
following the close of each calendar quarter, beginning with the
calendar quarter ending on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred
eighty-eight, the director of the budget shall, to the extent
practicable, provide a report to the chairs of the senate finance
committee and the assembly ways and means committee showing expenditures
for lease purchase and installment purchase payments made by or on
behalf of any state department and agency or any unit of the state
university or city university of New York for financed equipment
acquisitions during the preceding calendar quarter. Such reports shall
be organized by agency, program, fund, and appropriation. State
departments and agencies and units of the state university and the city
university of New York, the state comptroller, and the commissioner of
the office of general services shall assist the director in obtaining
the information necessary to produce such reports.