BILL NUMBER: S9055
SPONSOR: KRUEGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act making appropriations for the support of government; to amend
chapter 111 of the laws of 2024, relating to making appropriations for
the support of government, in relation thereto; to amend chapter 113 of
the laws of 2024, relating to making appropriations for the support of
government, in relation thereto; and to amend chapter 114 of the laws of
2024, relating to making appropriations for the support of government,
in relation thereto, and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
 
PURPOSE:
This bill provides appropriations to various State departments and agen-
cies to permit certain payments due from April 1 to April 18, 2024, to
be made absent enactment of the Budget appropriation bills submitted by
the Governor for the State fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 authorizes the Comptroller to utilize the appropriations
contained in this bill, which relate to the 2024-25 State fiscal year,
absent enactment of the 2024-25 Budget.
Section 2 provides $234.5 million in additional appropriation authority
for personal service payments scheduled to be made to State officers and
employees on the payrolls scheduled to be paid between April 1, 2024 and
April 18, 2024. This appropriation also includes funding for payment of
health care and mental hygiene bonuses to eligible State employees, and
payment for services performed by mentally ill or developmentally disa-
bled persons who are employed in State operated special employment, work
for pay or sheltered workshop programs.
Section 3 continues $32 million appropriation authority for nonpersonal
service payments by various State agencies. It is the intent of this
section to provide sufficient authorization for agencies to enter into
contracts, the terms of which may continue beyond the life of this
appropriation and for which payments for liabilities incurred beyond
April 18, 2024 would be made subject to additional future appropri-
ations.
Section 4 provides $16.8 million in additional appropriation authority
for payment of State employee and retiree fringe benefits and other
fixed costs mandated by statute or collective bargaining agreement
during the period April 1 to April 18, 2024. The appropriation amount
includes the State's contribution to the Social Security payroll tax,
the Voluntary Defined Contribution Plan, and the Metropolitan Commuter
Transportation Mobility Tax.
Section 5:
*Continues $80 million in appropriation authority for personal service
payments scheduled to be made to officers and employees of the Judiciary
through April 18, 2024.
*Continues $17 million in appropriation authority for nonpersonal
service liabilities incurred by the Judiciary.
*Continues $12.5 million in appropriation authority for aid to locali-
ties liabilities incurred by the Judiciary.
*Continues $67 million in appropriation authority for various employee
fringe benefit programs within the Judiciary.
Section 6:
*Continues $6.4 million for services and expenses related to the Indian
health program.
*Provides $3.2 million in additional authority for various federal food
and nutritional services.
Section 7 provides $165 million in additional appropriation authority
for the continuation of unemployment insurance benefits. New appropri-
ation is necessary due to daily new liabilities created by those filing
unemployment insurance benefit claims.
Section 8:
*Continues $385,000 in appropriation authority for statutorily required
payments to blind veterans.
*Provides $42,000 in additional appropriation authority for payments to
veterans experiencing homelessness.
Section 9 prohibits expenditures from all appropriations until certif-
icates of approval have been issued by the Director of the Budget and
filed with certain State officers.
Section 10 requires the Comptroller to transfer any expenditures made
against these appropriations to the 2024-25 Budget appropriations after
they have become law.
Section 11, the severability clause, provides that if any part of this
Act be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
such judgment would not invalidate the remainder of the Act.
Section 12 provides that the bill takes effect immediately and is deemed
to be in full force and effect on April 1, 2024, and, further, that the
appropriations made in the bill will be deemed repealed upon the trans-
fer of expenditures by the Comptroller pursuant to section 10 of the
bill.
 
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT:
This bill will allow the State to make certain payments and incur
certain liabilities during the period April 1 through April 18, 2024 on
a timely basis, in the absence of an enacted budget for State fiscal
year 2024-25.
 
BUDGET IMPLICATIONS:
Expenditures and disbursements made against these appropriations shall,
upon final action by the Legislature on the appropriation bills submit-
ted by the Governor for the support of government for the State fiscal
year beginning April 1, 2024, be transferred by the Comptroller as
expenditures and disbursements to such appropriations for State depart-
ments and agencies. Accordingly, this bill will have no additional
impact on the State's 2024-25 Financial Plan.