BILL NUMBER: S7317
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; to amend chapter 118 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 15, 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 continues $668.3 million in 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 15, 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 $12 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 15, 2025 would be made subject to additional future appro-
priations.
Section 4 provides $466.3 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 15, 2025. The appropriation amount includes the
State's contribution to the New York State Health Insurance Program,
Social Security payroll tax, the Employee Benefit Funds, Dental insur-
ance, the Voluntary Defined Contribution Plan, the Metropolitan Commuter
Transportation Mobility Tax, and the Vision Care Plan.
Section 5 provides authority for the Judiciary:
*Continues $85 million in appropriation authority for personal service
payments scheduled to be made to officers and employees of the Judiciary
through April 15, 2025,
*Provides $25 million in appropriation authority for nonpersonal service
liabilities incurred by the Judiciary,
*Provides $30 million in appropriation authority for aid to localities
liabilities incurred by the Judiciary, and
*Continues $300 million in appropriation authority for various employee
fringe benefit programs within the Judiciary.
Section 6 provides $19.6 million in appropriation authority for the
Office of Children and Family Services to make adoption subsidy payments
to parents and local districts.
Section 7 provides $262.5 million in appropriation authority for various
payments made by the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to
include:
*$79.2 million in appropriation authority for Safety Net Assistance,
*$125 million in Family Assistance, and
*$58.3 million in appropriation authority for the state Supplemental
Security Income (SSI) program, which makes monthly cash payments to
aged, blind, and disabled low-income New Yorkers.
Section 8 provides $1.12 billion in additional appropriation authority
for various payments made by the Department of Health to include:
*$6.4 million in additional appropriation authority for the Federal Food
and Nutritional Services and
*$1.1 billion in additional appropriation authority for the Medical
Assistance Administration Program, jointly financed by State and Federal
funds.
Section 9 provides $120 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 10 provides $49.4 million in appropriation authority for the
payment of mass transit operating assistance.
Section 11 provides $302.3 million in appropriation authority to the
Office for People with Developmental Disabilities to support not-for-
profit providers of essential programs and services.
Section 12 provides $469,000 in additional appropriation authority for
various payments made by the Department of Veterans Services to include:
*$385,000 in appropriation authority for statutorily required payments
to blind veterans.
*$84,000 in additional appropriation authority for statutorily required
payments to veterans experiencing homelessness.
Section 13 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 14 requires the Comptroller to transfer any expenditures made
against these appropriations to the 2025-26 Budget appropriations after
they have become law.
Section 15, 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 16 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 14 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 15, 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.