Bill > A03000

This bill appropriates funds for state operations for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2025, authorizing payments to respective public officers and for specified purposes. It allows for the allocation of federal grant appropriations for any grant period beginning, during, or prior to the state fiscal year. The bill also reappropriates undisbursed or unexpended balances from prior year appropriations for the same purposes, unless amended, and clarifies that abbreviated text in reappropriations using an ellipsis (...) indicates existing law not shown, with changes indicated by brackets for deletions and underscores for additions. Importantly, it grants the Director of the Budget the authority to withhold appropriations if a general fund imbalance is expected or occurs in fiscal year 2025-26, with specific exemptions for public assistance, payments violating federal law, constitutionally or contractually obligated debt service, and payments mandated by court orders or judgments. A general fund imbalance is defined as a cumulative budget imbalance of $2 billion or more, calculated without considering withheld payments or the transaction risk reserve. The Director of the Budget must notify legislative leaders of any planned withholdings and provide a plan, allowing the legislature ten business days to adopt its own conforming plan; if the legislature fails to do so or the plan is non-conforming, the Budget Director's plan takes effect. Withheld payments may be restored if a general fund surplus materializes. The bill also defines terms like "refunds," "rebates," "reimbursements," "credits," "repayments," and "disallowances" for appropriations made net of these items, specifying that the State Comptroller will credit such amounts back to the original appropriation and reduce expenditures in the year the credit is received. Finally, it repeals appropriations from Chapter 50 of the Laws of 2024 that would otherwise lapse on March 31, 2026, and makes all appropriations in this chapter available for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2025.

Budget and Finance

Budget (Senate)

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3000