ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION in response to the 2016-2017 Executive Budget
submission (Bill Nos. A. 9000-A, A. 9001, A. 9002, A. 9003-A, A.
9004-A, A. 9005-A, A. 9006-A, A. 9007-A, A. 9008-A and A. 9009-A) to be
adopted as legislation expressing the position of the New York State
Assembly relating to the 2016-2017 New York State Budget

WHEREAS, Article 7 of the constitution requires the Governor to submit
an executive budget containing a plan of expenditures to be made before
the close of the ensuing fiscal year and recommendations as to proposed
legislation; and
WHEREAS, At the time of submitting the budget to the legislature the
Governor is required to submit a bill or bills containing all the
proposed appropriations and reappropriations included in the budget and
the proposed legislation, if any, recommended therein; and
WHEREAS, No provision may be embraced in any appropriation bill
submitted by the Governor unless it relates specifically to some partic-
ular appropriation in the bill, and any such provision shall be limited
in its operation to such appropriation; and
WHEREAS, Upon submission, pursuant to Joint Rule III, the Senate
finance committee and the Assembly ways and means committee undertake an
analysis and public review of all the provisions of such budget; and
WHEREAS, After study and deliberation, each committee makes recommen-
dations in the form of bills and resolutions as to the contents thereof
and such other items of appropriation deemed necessary and desirable for
the operation of the government in the ensuing fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, All such fiscal committees' recommendations, when arrived at,
are then to be placed before the members of the Legislature, individual-
ly and collectively, in their respective houses for their consideration
and approval; and
WHEREAS, Upon adoption thereof, a Conference Committee on the Budget,
authorized by concurrent resolution of the Senate and Assembly pursuant
to Joint Rule III, and such subcommittees thereof as may be deemed
necessary are appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and the Temporary
President of the Senate, respectively, will engage in negotiations
designed to reach an accord on the contents of the budget for the ensu-
ing fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, In order to commence a Legislative process of budget negoti-
ations designed to reach a timely accord on the contents of the budget
for the ensuing fiscal year, it is necessary that budget proposals be
adopted by each house of the Legislature; and
WHEREAS, The Assembly intends to continue to work with the Governor
and the Senate to advance ethics and election reform, the Assembly
includes its reform proposals in A. 9535; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That, this resolution, together with the New York State
Assembly proposals for Executive budget resubmission contained in Assem-
bly Bill Nos. A. 9000-B, A. 9001, A. 9002, A. 9003-B, A. 9004-B, A.
9005-B, A. 9006-B, A. 9007-B, A. 9008-B and A. 9009-B which are incorpo-
rated as if fully set forth in this resolution, herein constitute the
legislation which expresses the budget proposals of the Assembly for the
2016-2017 New York State Budget.