BILL NUMBER: S7239
SPONSOR: KRUEGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act making appropriations for the support of government; to amend
chapter 113 of the laws of 2025 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 9, 2025, to be
made absent enactment of the Budget appropriation bills submitted by the
Governor for the State fiscal year beginning April 1, 2025.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 authorizes the Comptroller to utilize the appropriations
contained in this bill, which relate to the 2025-26 State fiscal year,
absent enactment of the 2025-26 Budget.
Section 2 provides $343.4 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, 2025,
and April 9, 2025. This appropriation also includes payment for services
performed by mentally ill or developmentally disabled persons who are
employed in State operated special employment, work for pay or sheltered
workshop programs.
Section 3 provides $10 million in additional 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 9, 2025 would be made subject to additional future appro-
priations.
Section 4 provides $29.3 in additional appropriation authority for
payment of State employee and retiree fringe benefits and other fixed
costs mandated by statute or collective bargaining agreements during the
period April 1 to April 9, 2025. 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 provides authority for the Judiciary:
* $85 million in appropriation authority for personal service payments
scheduled to be made to officers and employees of the Judiciary through
April 9, 2025 and
* $300 million in appropriation authority for various employee fringe
benefit programs within the Judiciary.
Section 6 provides $860.6 million in additional appropriation authority
for various payments made by the Department of Health to include:
* $2.1 million in additional appropriation authority for the Federal
Food and Nutritional Services and
* $858.4 million in additional appropriation authority for the Medical
Assistance Administration Program, jointly financed by State and Federal
funds.
Section 7 provides $150 million in additional appropriation authority
for the unemployment insurance benefits. New appropriation authority is
necessary due to daily new liabilities created by those filing unemploy-
ment insurance benefit claims.
Section 8 provides $28,000 in additional appropriation authority for
statutorily required 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 2025-26 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, 2025, 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 9, 2025 on a
timely basis, in the absence of an enacted budget for State fiscal year
2025-26.
 
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, 2025, 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 2025-26 Financial Plan.