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2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 29 - Sub-Committees of Finance and Ways and Means Committees.

§ 29. Sub-committees of finance and ways and means committees. For the
  purpose of more effectively carrying out the provisions of this article,
  and  those  of article two of the state departments law, the chairman of
  the committee on finance appointed under the rules of the senate and the
  chairman of the committee on ways and means appointed under the rules of
  the assembly shall have the power to name sub-committees to perform such
  duties as they may prescribe. The  members  of  such  sub-committees  so
  serving  shall  be  paid  their  necessary  traveling  expenses  in  the
  performance of their duties.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 30 - Duties of Finance and Ways and Means Committees and Secretaries.

§ 30. Duties of finance and ways and means committees and secretaries.
  The committees and their secretaries shall have access at all reasonable
  times  to offices of state departments, commissions, boards, bureaus and
  offices, to institutions and to all state authorities and  public  works
  of  the  state and they may, for the purpose of obtaining information as
  to the method of operation,  general  condition,  management  and  needs
  thereof,   examine   the  books,  papers  and  public  records  therein.
  Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law  such  state  departments,
  commissions,   boards,   bureaus,   offices,   state   authorities   and
  institutions shall through their proper officers or deputies furnish  to
  such committees such data, information or statements as may be necessary
  for  the  proper exercise of their powers and duties and for the purpose
  of carrying into effect the provisions of this article. The finance  and
  ways  and  means  committee  in exercising the powers and performing the
  duties prescribed by this article may act  jointly,  or  separately,  as
  they deem advisable.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 31 - Appearances and Inquiries in Respect to the Budget; Procedure Regulated.

§ 31. Appearances  and  inquiries  in respect to the budget; procedure
  regulated. The governor and the  heads  of  departments,  divisions  and
  offices  each shall have the right to appear voluntarily and be heard in
  respect to the budget  before  the  committees  of  the  houses  of  the
  legislature to which such budget may be referred under the rules of such
  houses,  as  herein provided. Such voluntary appearance by the head of a
  department, division or office may be made either in  person  or  by  an
  accredited  representative of the department, division or office. If the
  governor or the head of any department, division or office shall request
  a hearing before the committee, in respect to the budget, the  committee
  shall  notify  him  or  them  of the time or times when the committee is
  prepared to hear him or them on such voluntary appearance. At  any  time
  before  the  bills accompanying the budget shall have been reported, the
  committee to which they were  referred  may  request  the  head  of  any
  department,  division  or  office,  other  than  the governor, to appear
  before it, at a time stated or forthwith, and answer relevant  inquiries
  in respect to the budget. If, pursuant to section three of article seven
  of  the  constitution,  a house of the legislature directly requests the
  head of a department, division or  office  to  appear  before  it  or  a
  committee  thereof,  to  answer inquiries in respect to the budget, at a
  time stated or forthwith, the secretary or clerk of such house,  as  the
  case  may  be, shall notify him of such request and of the time when his
  appearance is desired, immediately upon the adoption of  the  resolution
  therefor.  If  the  head  of  a  department,  division  or  office whose
  appearance is requested by  such  house  or  committee  be  a  board  or
  commission,  the  request may be directed to one or more of its members,
  naming him or them.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 32 - Representation of Certain Legislative Committees During Revision of the Budget.

§ 32. Representation of certain legislative committees during revision
  of  the  budget. The chairman of the finance committee of the senate and
  the chairman of the ways and means committee of  the  assembly  and  the
  ranking  minority  members  of each of such committees shall be notified
  of, and they and/or their representatives shall attend, the hearings  on
  the  estimates  for  the  budget  and  revision thereof made pursuant to
  section one of article seven of the  constitution,  and  they  shall  be
  permitted  to  make inquiry with respect to such estimates and revision,
  including all items thereof and all matters and facts relevant  thereto.
  Such inquiry shall be conducted subject to such reasonable regulation as
  may  be  prescribed  by  the  governor  with  a view to facilitating the
  inquiry without unnecessary delay in the investigation and  revision  by
  the governor.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 32-A - Budget; Public Hearings.

§ 32-a. Budget;   public  hearings.  After  submission  and  prior  to
  enactment of the executive budget, the senate finance committee and  the
  assembly  ways  and  means committee jointly or separately shall conduct
  public hearings on the budget. Such hearings may be conducted regionally
  to provide individuals and organizations throughout the  state  with  an
  opportunity  to  comment  on the budget. The committees shall make every
  effort to hear all those who wish to present statements at  such  public
  hearings.  The  chairs  of  the  committees  jointly or separately shall
  publish a schedule of hearings.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 33 - Exercise of Certain Statutory Powers During a Vacancy in Office of the Temporary President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly.

§ 33. Exercise  of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office
  of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.  A
  statutory  power  of the temporary president of the senate or speaker of
  the assembly, jointly or singly  to  approve  vouchers,  to  direct  the
  expenditure of moneys appropriated for a legislative purpose, to appoint
  or fix the compensation of legislative employees, to appoint a member or
  members  of  a  legislative  committee of investigation or other special
  legislative  committee,  or   of   a   temporary   commission   lawfully
  constituted,  or  to  act  ex officio as a member of such a committee or
  commission, may be exercised during  a  vacancy  or  vacancies  in  such
  office  or  offices,  between final adjournment of the annual session of
  the legislature and the ensuing first day of January, by the chairman of
  the finance committee of the senate, acting in the place  and  stead  of
  the  temporary  president  of  the  senate,  if  such vacancy be in that
  office, and by the chairman of the  ways  and  means  committee  of  the
  assembly, in the place and stead of the speaker of the assembly, if such
  vacancy be in that office.
In case of the disability of the chairman of such a committee, or of a
  vacancy in such chairmanship, if the occasion arises for the exercise by
  the  chairman of the powers conferred by this section, a majority of the
  members of the committee, by certificate in triplicate  filed  with  the
  respective  secretary  and clerk of the senate and assembly and with the
  comptroller, may designate one  of  the  members  of  the  committee  to
  exercise such powers.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2-A - Procedure for Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition › 34 - Definitions.

§ 34. Definitions.  The  words  and phrases used in this article shall
  have the following meanings:
a. "House" means the senate or assembly of the state of New York.
b. "Initiating house" means the house wherein a request is filed  with
  the  secretary  or  clerk,  as  the case may be, under the provisions of
  subdivision a of section thirty-five of this article.
c. "Petition" means a document distributed by the secretary  or  clerk
  of  the initiating house to the members thereof transmitting the request
  of  a  member  or  members  of  such  house  for  the  convening  of  an
  extraordinary session.
d.  "Receiving  house"  means  the  house  to  which  is transmitted a
  certified copy of a  petition  timely  executed  by  two-thirds  of  the
  members of the initiating house.
e. "Concurring petition" means a document distributed by the secretary
  or clerk of the receiving house to the members thereof upon receipt from
  the  clerk or secretary of the initiating house of a certified copy of a
  petition timely executed by two-thirds of the members of the  initiating
  house  duly  requesting  the  convening  of  an extraordinary session. A
  concurring petition shall transmit such request in language identical to
  that contained in such certified copy.
f. "Joint petition"  means  a  document  distributed  jointly  by  the
  secretary  and  clerk  to  the  members of both houses, transmitting the
  joint written request of at least one  member  of  each  house  for  the
  convening of an extraordinary session.
g.  "Perfected concurring petition" means a concurring petition timely
  executed by two-thirds of the members of the receiving house.
h. "Perfected joint petition" means a joint petition  timely  executed
  by two-thirds of the members of each house.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2-A - Procedure for Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition › 35 - Form of Request for the Convening of an Extraordinary Session.

§ 35. Form  of  request for the convening of an extraordinary session.
  a. A request for the convening of an extraordinary session, which may be
  submitted by at least one member of an individual house, shall state the
  subject or subjects sought to be acted  upon,  and  shall  be  on  forms
  prepared and provided by the clerk or secretary of such house.
b.  A  joint  request  for  the convening of an extraordinary session,
  which may be submitted by at least one member of each house, shall state
  the subject or subjects sought to be acted upon, and shall be  on  forms
  prepared and provided by the clerk and secretary of both houses jointly.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2-A - Procedure for Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition › 36 - Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition.

§ 36. Convening extraordinary sessions of the legislature by petition.
a.  (1) The secretary or clerk of the initiating house, upon the receipt
of the written request of any member or members elected thereto that the
legislature be convened in extraordinary session and stating the subject
matter sought to be acted upon, shall forthwith cause a petition  to  be
served  personally  on,  or  sent  by  registered  mail,  return receipt
requested, to each member of such house at his voting  address  or  such
other address as he shall have designated therefor in writing.
(2)  Upon  timely return to the temporary president or speaker, as the
case may be, of the signatures of two-thirds  of  the  members  of  such
house,  the  respective  secretary  or  clerk shall forthwith transmit a
certified copy of such  petition  to  the  secretary  or  clerk  of  the
receiving house.
b.  The secretary or clerk of the receiving house, as the case may be,
upon receipt of such certified copy of the petition from  the  secretary
or  clerk  of  the  initiating house, shall forthwith cause a concurring
petition to be served personally on, or sent by registered mail,  return
receipt  requested, to each member of the receiving house, at his voting
address or such other address as he shall have  designated  therefor  in
writing.
c.  The  secretary  and  clerk,  upon  the  receipt of a joint written
request by at least one member of each house  that  the  legislature  be
convened  in extraordinary session and stating the subject matter sought
to be acted upon, shall forthwith cause a joint petition  to  be  served
personally  on, or sent by registered mail, return receipt requested, to
each member of both houses, at such  member's  voting  address  or  such
other  address  as  he  shall  have  designated therefor in writing. The
secretary or clerk, upon the receipt of such a  joint  written  request,
shall forthwith transmit to the other such officer a copy thereof.
d.  No  signature  of any member upon any petition, joint petition, or
concurring petition shall be effective unless received by the  temporary
president  or the speaker, as the case may be, of the member's house, at
the capitol, within twenty-one days of the date of service or mailing of
such petition on or to such member.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2-A - Procedure for Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition › 37 - Time of Convening an Extraordinary Session.

§ 37. Time  of  convening  an extraordinary session. Upon receipt of a
  perfected concurring petition by the temporary president or the speaker,
  as the case may be, or upon the receipt of a perfected joint petition by
  both the temporary president and  the  speaker,  the  legislature  shall
  convene  in  an  extraordinary session at noon on the first Monday after
  the first Tuesday after the last day for the  return  of  signatures  on
  such  petition, or on any other day jointly agreed upon by the temporary
  president and the speaker, but no later than  the  second  Monday  after
  such Tuesday. The secretary and clerk shall forthwith notify the members
  of  the respective houses and the governor of the date and time when the
  legislature shall convene, and of the  subjects  to  be  considered,  as
  enumerated in the perfected joint or concurring petition.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2-A - Procedure for Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition › 38 - Subjects to Be Acted Upon.

§ 38. Subjects  to  be  acted upon. At an extraordinary session of the
  legislature convened pursuant to the  provisions  of  this  article,  no
  subject  may  be  acted  upon  except  such  as  may be specified in the
  perfected joint or concurring petition pursuant to which such session is
  convened, or such  as  may  be  specified  in  any  perfected  joint  or
  concurring  petition received by the temporary president and the speaker
  prior to or during such extraordinary session, or such as may  be  added
  to  such  petition or petitions by amendment thereof by joint resolution
  adopted by two-thirds of the members elected to each house.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2-A - Procedure for Convening Extraordinary Sessions of the Legislature by Petition › 39 - Duty of the Secretary and Clerk Under Article.

§ 39. Duty  of  the secretary and clerk under article. It shall be the
  duty of the secretary and clerk of the house, as the  case  may  be,  to
  take  charge  of and keep on file the original of any request, petition,
  concurring petition,  joint  petition,  perfected  joint  or  concurring
  petition,  record  or  other  document  issued  by  or  returned to them
  pursuant to or in the course of the discharge of their duties imposed by
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 40 - Certificate of Presiding Officer.

§ 40. Certificate  of  presiding  officer.  Upon the passage by either
  house of the legislature of  a  bill,  concurrent  resolution  proposing
  amendments to the state constitution, or concurrent resolution proposing
  or  ratifying  amendments  to the constitution of the United States, the
  presiding or other officer designated by the rules of such  house  shall
  append  to  such  bill or resolution a certificate, to be signed by him,
  which shall disclose the date of its passage in such house, and  whether
  passed  by  the  votes  of a majority of all the members elected to such
  house or of two-thirds thereof,  or  of  a  majority  of  such  members,
  three-fifths  thereof  being  present. In addition, if any such bill has
  been passed on a message required by the constitution,  that  fact  also
  shall be stated, and if the message so specifies, the applicable portion
  of  the  constitution shall be identified. Upon the passage of a bill as
  to which a part becomes law immediately  and  a  part  requires  further
  action by the governor, two copies shall be certified as above provided,
  one of which, upon final passage by both houses, shall be transmitted to
  the  governor and the other to the secretary of state. No bills shall be
  deemed to have so passed unless certified in the manner provided by this
  section, which certificate to such effect shall be  conclusive  evidence
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 41 - Evidence of When Bill Becomes a Law.

§ 41. Evidence  of when bill becomes a law. If a bill becomes a law by
  the approval of the governor, the certificate of the governor  shall  be
  the  evidence of the time when the bill becomes a law. If appropriations
  for the legislature or judiciary or separate items added to  a  bill  by
  the  legislature  pursuant  to  article seven of the constitution become
  part of law previously enacted by the passage of the  bill  therefor  by
  both  houses  of  the  legislature  as  provided  in such article of the
  constitution, the certificate of the governor shall be evidence  of  the
  time  when  such appropriations and added items become part of such law.
  If a bill becomes a law by the failure of the governor to sign it or  to
  return  it  to the house where it originated without his approval within
  the time required by the constitution, or if, under article seven of the
  constitution, a bill containing two or more appropriations becomes a law
  immediately as to all or as to  part  of  the  bill,  upon  the  passage
  thereof  by both houses of the legislature and without further action by
  the governor, the certificate of the secretary of state of the time when
  the bill was filed in his office shall be evidence of the time when  the
  bill,  or the part thereof not requiring further action by the governor,
  became a law.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 42 - Deposit of Laws and Concurrent Resolutions With Legislative Leaders and Secretary of State.

§ 42. Deposit  of  laws  and  concurrent  resolutions with legislative
  leaders and secretary of state. 1. The governor, upon  approval  of  any
  bill  or  part thereof or if the bill be one as to which all or any part
  becomes  law  immediately  upon  its  passage  by  both  houses  of  the
  legislature  pursuant  to  article  seven of the constitution, shall, in
  either event, assign a chapter number  to  such  bill  and  deposit  the
  original  thereof  with  the secretary of state and a certified official
  copy thereof with the temporary president of the senate and the  speaker
  of  the  assembly.  Both  the  original  and  certified  copy shall have
  appended thereto the certificate of the presiding officer of each  house
  and the chapter number assigned by the governor.
2.   Every   concurrent   resolution   proposing   amendments  to  the
  constitution of  the  state  and  concurrent  resolutions  proposing  or
  ratifying  amendments  to the constitution of the United States shall be
  deposited with the secretary of state upon passage, with the certificate
  of the presiding officer of each house appended thereto.  The  secretary
  of  state  shall  forthwith upon any such deposit endorse upon each such
  concurrent resolution his certificate of the day, month and year it  was
  filed  in  his  office,  and  his  certificate  to  such effect shall be
  presumptive evidence thereof. A certified  official  copy  thereof  with
  such  certificate  appended  thereto shall be delivered to the temporary
  president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 44 - Printing of Session Laws.

§ 44. Printing  of session laws. The temporary president of the senate
  and the speaker of the assembly or a person  or  persons  designated  by
  each  legislative  leader  shall  annually  cause the session laws to be
  printed in a bound volume or volumes  as  soon  as  possible  after  the
  adjournment  of  the  legislature. Each such law shall be printed in the
  same form as the official copy of the bill which became such law  except
  that line numbers, the printed number of the bill and explanatory matter
  shall be omitted. There shall be inserted immediately under the title of
  the  law,  a  statement  to  the  effect  that  it became a law upon the
  properly specified date, with or without the approval of  the  governor,
  or  notwithstanding  his  objections, as the case may be, and adding the
  words "passed by a majority vote," "passed by  a  two-thirds  vote,"  or
  "passed  by  a majority vote, three-fifths being present," and if passed
  on a message required by the  constitution,  that  fact  also  shall  be
  stated,  and, if the certificate so specifies, the applicable portion of
  the  constitution  shall  be  identified,   in   accordance   with   the
  certificates   appended  to  the  original  bill.  In  the  case  of  an
  appropriation law passed pursuant to the provisions  of  sections  three
  and  four of article seven of the constitution the statement in addition
  to the other matter prescribed in this section  shall  also  be  to  the
  effect  that  part  of it became a law upon a properly specified date by
  the action of both houses of the legislature and that part of it  became
  a law upon a properly specified date with or without the approval of the
  governor,  or  notwithstanding  his objections, as the case may be. Such
  statement shall be  presumptive  evidence  that  the  original  law  was
  certified by the presiding officer of each house accordingly.
The  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly
  shall determine the price at which copies of such session laws shall  be
  made  available  to  the  public.  Such  copies may be made available in
  paperback editions.
The legislature may appropriate such state moneys as may be  necessary
  to  secure  the  printing  of  the  session  laws in accordance with the
  provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 44-A - Printing of Concurrent Resolutions.

§ 44-a. Printing  of  concurrent  resolutions.  In printing concurrent
  resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution of  the  state,  or
  concurrent   resolutions   proposing  or  ratifying  amendments  to  the
  constitution of the United States, all new matter shall be  set  out  in
  italics and all matter to be eliminated shall be enclosed in brackets.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 45 - Contents of Printed Volumes of Session Laws.

§ 45. Contents  of printed volumes of session laws. The volumes of the
  session laws shall contain:
1.  A  statement  of  the  names  and  residences  of  the   governor,
  lieutenant-governor,  senators  and  members  of assembly, the presiding
  officers and the respective secretary or clerk of each house  in  office
  during each session.
2.  The  laws,  and concurrent resolutions proposing amendments to the
  constitution of  the  state  and  concurrent  resolutions  proposing  or
  ratifying amendments to the constitution of the United States, passed at
  each session.
3.  Amendments to the state constitution, approved and ratified by the
  people at the last preceding general election.
4. Tables showing the laws and parts thereof amended  or  repealed  by
  such laws.
5.  Indexes  of  the laws and concurrent resolutions contained in such
  volumes.
6. Such other matters as are required by law to be contained  in  such
  volumes.
Such  laws,  concurrent resolutions, tables, indexes and other matters
  so required to be printed shall  be  prepared  for  printing  under  the
  direction  of  and  by  experienced  persons  employed  by the temporary
  president of the senate and speaker of the assembly, who shall  fix  the
  compensation  and  approve  necessary  expenses of such employees within
  amounts appropriated therefor. Suitable references to  existing  general
  or  consolidated  laws,  codes,  or special or local laws may be made in
  footnotes or otherwise. Each volume printed for the state shall  contain
  a  certificate  of  the temporary president of the senate and speaker of
  the assembly that it was printed pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  section and section forty-four of this chapter and is in compliance with
  the provisions thereof.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 46 - Distribution of Session Laws.

§ 46. Distribution  of  session  laws. The volumes of the session laws
  shall be  provided,  to  the  extent  funds  have  been  made  available
  therefor,  in  such reasonable numbers as may be required by the various
  branches of state government and  distributed  in  accordance  with  the
  schedule  of  distribution  ordered  by  the  temporary president of the
  senate and the speaker of the assembly.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 47 - Officers and Institutions Entitled to Receive Volumes of Journals, Bills and Public Documents.

§ 47. Officers   and  institutions  entitled  to  receive  volumes  of
  journals, bills and public documents.  The secretary of the  senate  and
  the  clerk  of the assembly for their respective houses shall distribute
  bound volumes of journals and bound volumes of bills, and  other  public
  documents  of  each  house  of  the  legislature or any of its standing,
  special, select  or  joint  committees,  subcommittees,  or  legislative
  commissions as follows:
1.  To  the  legislative library, three copies of the journals, bills,
  and public documents;
2. To the New York state library, for  its  depositories,  the  United
  States  Library  of  Congress and general exchange, thirty copies of the
  journals, thirty copies of the public documents, and  one  copy  of  the
  bills;
3. To the executive chamber, one copy of the bills;
4. To the office of the secretary of state, one copy of the bills;
5. To the office of the attorney general, one copy of the journals and
  bills.
6. The term "public document" as used in this section shall mean those
  documents defined by rules and regulations of the temporary president of
  the  senate  and the speaker of the assembly for their respective houses
  of the legislature.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 48 - Publication of Concurrent Resolutions.

§ 48. Publication  of  concurrent  resolutions. The secretary of state
  shall send to each newspaper designated pursuant to law, in the order in
  which they are passed, and as soon as the slips are printed,  copies  of
  such  concurrent resolutions as are required to be published. Concurrent
  resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution shall be  published
  in  such  newspapers, at the times prescribed by the election law, under
  the direction of the secretary of state, at the expense of the state, in
  such manner, by the use of italics or bold  face  and  brackets,  as  to
  indicate the new matter added and the old matter eliminated.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 50 - Fiscal Note in Retirement Bills.

§ 50. Fiscal  note  in retirement bills. A bill which enacts or amends
  any provision of law relating to a retirement  system  or  plan  of  the
  state  of New York or of any of its political subdivisions shall contain
  a fiscal note stating the estimated annual cost to the employer affected
  and the source of such estimate.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 51 - Fiscal Impact Notes on Bills Affecting Political Subdivisions.

§ 51. Fiscal  impact  notes on bills affecting political subdivisions.
  1. For the purpose of this section,  the  term  "political  subdivision"
  means  any  county,  city,  town,  village,  special  district or school
  district.
2. The legislature shall by concurrent resolution of  the  senate  and
  assembly  prescribe  rules  requiring  fiscal  notes  to accompany, on a
  separate form, bills  and  amendments  to  bills,  except  as  otherwise
  prescribed  by such rules, which would substantially affect the revenues
  or expenses, or both, of any political subdivision.
3. Fiscal notes shall not, however, be required for bills: (a) subject
  to the provisions of section fifty of this chapter, or  (b)  accompanied
  by  special  home  rule requests submitted by political subdivisions, or
  (c) which provide discretionary authority to political subdivisions,  or
  (d) submitted pursuant to section twenty-four of the state finance law.
4.  If  the  estimate  or  estimates  contained  in  a fiscal note are
  inaccurate, such inaccuracies shall not  affect,  impair  or  invalidate
  such bill.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 52 - Requirements With Respect to Bills Affecting Tax Expenditures.

§ 52. Requirements  with  respect to bills affecting tax expenditures.
  1. For purposes of this section, the terms "tax expenditures" and  "cost
  of  tax  expenditure"  shall  have  the  same meanings that they have in
  section one hundred eighty-one of the executive law.
2. Tax expenditure impact statement. In addition to any  other  fiscal
  note  required,  a bill that enacts or amends any tax expenditures shall
  be accompanied by an  impact  statement  consisting  of  a  fiscal  note
  separately  stating  the  estimated  cost of the tax expenditures in the
  bill (a) for the first year it is to be in effect and (b) for  the  next
  succeeding  year,  as  well  as  a statement of the public purpose to be
  served by such tax expenditures, unless  the  legislature  affirmatively
  sets forth that no such public purpose statement is required.
3.  Hearings.  Hearings  held  by  the legislature pursuant to article
  seven of the constitution shall include sufficient time  for  discussion
  and review of tax expenditures.
4.  Joint  report. The chairmen of the fiscal committees shall issue a
  joint report on the governor's annual tax expenditure report. Such joint
  report shall include: a summary  of  the  legislature's  action  on  any
  recommendations  by  the  governor to continue, modify or repeal any tax
  expenditures; a summary  of  any  legislative  initiative  to  continue,
  modify  or  repeal  any  tax  expenditures;  and  any  revisions  in the
  estimated costs of any tax expenditures included in the tax  expenditure
  report  submitted  pursuant  to  section  one  hundred eighty-one of the
  executive law.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 53 - Budget Review Process.

§ 53. Budget  review  process. Within ten days after submission of the
  budget by the governor pursuant to article seven  of  the  constitution,
  the  temporary  president  of the senate and the speaker of the assembly
  shall jointly or separately  promulgate  a  schedule  for  the  specific
  budget-related  actions  of each house, including but not limited to the
  following:
1. a preliminary response by  the  houses  to  the  governor's  budget
  submission;
2.  fiscal  committee  hearings  on the budget, hearings with heads of
  departments and divisions pursuant to section three of article seven  of
  the  constitution,  and  other  actions which may be taken by the fiscal
  committees, which shall be designed to inform the public of the contents
  of the governor's budget, policy issues relating to such budget and such
  other information as the  senate  and  the  assembly  shall  jointly  or
  separately  determine.  Such hearings and other actions may be conducted
  jointly or separately;
3. a date for the production of a forecast or  forecasts  on  receipts
  which  shall constitute an evaluation developed by the fiscal committees
  of each house, jointly or separately,  of  the  receipts  likely  to  be
  available  to the state absent passage of any new revenue measures. Such
  forecast or forecasts shall also contain an evaluation of  the  receipts
  likely  to be available to the state upon passage of any revenue measure
  submitted and proposed by the governor  pursuant  to  section  three  of
  article seven of the state constitution; and
4. the dates for public hearings required by the provisions of section
  thirty-two-a of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 54 - Report on the Budget.

§ 54. Report  on the budget. 1. Upon passage of appropriation bills by
both the senate and the assembly, the  senate  and  the  assembly  shall
issue  either  jointly  or separately a summary of changes to the budget
submitted by the governor  in  accordance  with  article  seven  of  the
constitution. The summary shall be in such a form as to indicate whether
the  budget  as amended provides that, for the general fund, any changes
in anticipated disbursements are  balanced  by  changes  in  anticipated
receipts. The summary shall be accompanied by descriptions of changes to
both  receipts and disbursements in sufficient detail as is necessary to
describe legislative action on the  governor's  budget  submission.  The
summary  shall  be  in  such  format as determined by the senate and the
assembly, either jointly or separately, and may be issued separately, as
part of the report required by section twenty-two-b of the state finance
law or may be included  within  the  introductory  memoranda  or  fiscal
committee memoranda relating to such legislation or in such other manner
as  may  be determined by the senate and the assembly, either separately
or jointly.
2. (a) The legislature shall enact a budget for  the  upcoming  fiscal
year that it determines is balanced in the general fund.
(b) Before voting upon an appropriation bill submitted by the governor
and related legislation, as amended, in accordance with article seven of
the  constitution,  each house shall place on the desks of its members a
report relating to each such bill and, preceding  final  action  on  all
such  appropriation  bills and legislation, members shall be so provided
with a comprehensive, cumulative report relating to all such  bills  and
legislation.
(c)  The  reports prepared by each house shall include for the general
fund a summary of proposed legislative revisions to the executive budget
for the ensuing fiscal year, and shall separately identify  and  present
all legislative additions, reestimates and other revisions that increase
or  decrease  disbursements,  and  separately  identify  and present all
legislative reestimates and other revisions that  increase  or  decrease
available  resources.  Such report shall, where practicable, display and
separately identify and present all legislative additions,  reestimates,
and  other revisions that increase or decrease state funds and all funds
spending, including an estimate of the impact of the proposed  revisions
on local governments and the state workforce.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3 - The Enactment and Publication of Laws › 54-A - Scheduling of Legislative Consideration of Budget Bills.

§  54-a.  Scheduling of legislative consideration of budget bills. The
legislature shall by concurrent resolution of the  senate  and  assembly
prescribe by joint rule or rules a procedure for:
1.  establishing  a  joint budget conference committee or joint budget
conference committees within ten days following the  submission  of  the
budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, to
consider  and reconcile such budget resolution or budget bills as may be
passed by each house; and
2. promulgating a schedule within ten days following the submission of
the  budget  by  the  governor  pursuant  to  article   seven   of   the
constitution,  for considering and acting upon such budget appropriation
and related bills which shall include:
(a) dates for those actions required to be taken  by  the  legislature
pursuant to section fifty-three of this chapter;
(b)  dates  for  public  hearings  on  submissions  by the governor as
required by section thirty-two-a of this chapter;
(c) a date for the establishment of joint budget conference  committee
or committees; and
(d)  a  date  by  which  such  joint  budget  conference  committee or
committees shall issue their final reports.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3-A - Requests From Local Governments for Enactment of Special Laws › 55 - Requests From Local Governments for Enactment of Special Laws.

§ 55. Requests  from  local governments for enactment of special laws.
  The legislature shall prescribe by rules to be promulgated from time  to
  time  by  concurrent  resolution of the Senate and Assembly the forms of
  requests to be submitted to it by counties, cities, towns  and  villages
  with  respect to the enactment of special laws pursuant to paragraph two
  of subdivision (b) of section two of article nine  of  the  constitution
  and the manner of communication of such requests to the legislature.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 3-A - Requests From Local Governments for Enactment of Special Laws › 56 - Effect of Requests From Local Governments.

§ 56. Effect  of requests from local governments. The enactment of any
  law under paragraph two of subdivision (b) of  section  two  of  article
  nine  of the constitution shall be conclusive as to the facts that (1) a
  necessity as set forth in the request existed at the time  of  enactment
  and  (2)  that  sufficient  facts  were  set  forth  in  such request to
  establish such necessity.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 60 - Testimony Before Legislative Committees.

§ 60. Testimony before legislative committees. A legislative committee
  may require the attendance of witnesses in this state whom the committee
  may  wish  to  examine, or may issue a commission for the examination of
  witnesses who are out of the state or unable to attend the committee  or
  excused  from  attendance,  which commission if directed by the house or
  legislature by which the committee is appointed may be  executed  during
  the  recess  of the legislature. A commission issued as provided by this
  section shall be in the form used in the courts of record of this  state
  and shall be executed in like manner. Unless otherwise instructed by the
  committee  appointing  them  the  commissioners  shall examine privately
  every witness attending before  them  and  shall  not  make  public  the
  particulars of such examination. No committee of either house or a joint
  committee  of  both  houses  shall have the power to take testimony at a
  private hearing or at a public  hearing  unless  at  least  two  of  its
  members are present at such hearing.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 61 - Subcommittees.

§ 61. Subcommittees. Whenever any committee of either house or a joint
  committee of both houses of the legislature shall be required to make an
  inquiry  or  investigation, such committee may appoint a subcommittee of
  not less than  three  of  its  own  members  to  make  such  inquiry  or
  investigation,  and  to  take  testimony  in  relation thereto; and such
  committee or subcommittee and the chairman  thereof  shall  respectively
  have  all  the powers and authority, which are conferred by law upon any
  committee which is authorized to send for persons or papers, or upon the
  chairman thereof. No subcommittee shall have the power to take testimony
  at a private hearing or at a public hearing unless at least two  of  its
  members are present at such hearing.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 62 - Witnesses' Fees.

§ 62. Witnesses'  fees.  Any  person  attending as a witness under the
  provisions of the last two sections shall receive the same fees  as  are
  allowed  witnesses  in civil actions in courts of record. Such fees need
  not be prepaid, but the comptroller upon the certificate of the chairman
  of the committee, and proof by affidavit or otherwise that the  same  is
  due, shall draw his warrant for the payment of the amount thereof.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 62-A - Subpoenas; Oaths.

§ 62-a. Subpoenas; oaths. The chairman, vice-chairman or a majority of
  a  legislative  committee  may  issue  a  subpoena requiring a person to
  attend before the committee and be examined in reference to  any  matter
  within  the scope of the inquiry or investigation being conducted by the
  committee, and, in a proper case, to bring with him, a  book  or  paper.
  The  provisions  of  the  civil  practice  law  and rules in relation to
  enforcing  obedience  to  a  subpoena  lawfully  issued  by   a   judge,
  arbitrator, referee or other person in a matter not arising in an action
  in  a  court  of  record  apply  to  a  subpoena issued by a legislative
  committee as authorized by this section. Any  member  of  a  legislative
  committee may administer an oath to a witness.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 62-B - Joint Legislative Committee Competent Authority to Confer Immunity.

§ 62-b. Joint  legislative  committee  competent  authority  to confer
  immunity. In  any  inquiry  or  investigation  by  a  joint  legislative
  committee, such committee is a competent authority to confer immunity in
  accordance  with  section  50.20 of the criminal procedure law. Immunity
  may be conferred only upon the concurrence of a  majority  of  the  full
  membership  of  such  committee  and  provided that at least twenty-four
  hours prior written notice is given to the attorney general of the state
  of New York and to the appropriate district attorney having an  official
  interest therein.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 63 - Expenses of Committees.

§ 63. Expenses  of committees. Whenever by resolution of either house,
  a committee or joint committee duly appointed pursuant thereto shall  be
  directed  to conduct an investigation or take testimony, the comptroller
  shall draw his warrant for the  payment  of  the  actual  and  necessary
  expenses  of  the  committee  or  subcommittee  having  in  charge  such
  investigation, inquiry or taking of testimony, and of the  officers  and
  employees  authorized  to  accompany  them,  upon  the  rendition  of an
  itemized bill  of  such  expenses  certified  by  the  chairman  of  the
  committee,  and approved by the temporary president of the senate in the
  case of a senate committee, or the speaker of the assembly in  the  case
  of  an  assembly  committee,  or  by both such officers in the case of a
  joint committee, or by his or their designee or designees, respectively,
  and upon proof by affidavit or otherwise that the same is due.
Such designation shall be in writing and filed in the office  of  such
  officer  or  officers  and  in  the  office of the comptroller and shall
  remain in effect during the term of office of such officer  or  officers
  unless  sooner  revoked.  The approval of any such designee shall be for
  expenses other than personal service and in amounts not  to  exceed  the
  sum fixed in such designation for any such item.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 64 - Contested Elections.

§ 64. Contested elections. Upon the application of any person desirous
  of  obtaining  testimony  respecting  the election of a member of either
  house, for the purpose of contesting an election, or resisting a contest
  thereof, any county judge of the county, or justice of the supreme court
  of the district, or the mayor or recorder of a city in which the  member
  or  applicant  shall reside, may require the attendance of persons named
  by the applicant,  at  a  specified  time  and  place,  to  be  examined
  respecting such election; and shall, at the same time, issue a notice to
  the  opposite  party  of the time, place and object of such examination.
  The notice shall be served in the same manner as a notice of motion in a
  court of record. At the time appointed for the examination,  upon  proof
  of the due service of such notice, the witnesses who shall attend or who
  shall  be  produced by either party, shall be examined under oath before
  such officer, respecting such matters relating to the election about  to
  be  contested, as shall be proposed by either party. The testimony given
  upon such examination  shall  be  reduced  to  writing,  signed  by  the
  witnesses  respectively,  certified  by  the  officer before whom it was
  taken, and with the subpoena, notice and proof of the  service  thereof,
  shall  be  sent  by  him under seal to the secretary or the clerk of the
  house to which the election pertains.
A witness attending before such officer,  by  virtue  of  a  subpoena,
  shall  receive  the same fees as are allowed to witnesses in civil suits
  in courts of record, to be paid by the  party  at  whose  instance  such
  witness was summoned.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 65 - Expenses of Unsuccessful Contestant.

§ 65. Expenses of unsuccessful contestant. When the seat of any member
  of  the  legislature  shall  be  contested,  no  expense incurred by the
  contestant, in prosecuting his claim, shall be paid by the state, unless
  such seat be awarded to the contestant.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings › 66-A - Prohibited Activity by Legislative Employees.

§ 66-a. Prohibited  activity  by legislative employees. No legislative
  employee shall, except  within  the  scope  of  legislative  employment,
  directly  or  indirectly,  promote  or  oppose  the  passage of bills or
  resolutions by either house.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this
  section, a legislative employee who serves as an elected chief executive
  officer  or  member  of  a  governing body of a municipal corporation or
  district corporation shall be authorized to participate  while  carrying
  out  the  official  duties  of  such office in the discussion, drafting,
  preparation,  voting  and  dispatch  of   a   resolution,   message   or
  proclamation  addressed  to  either  house.  A violation of this section
  shall constitute a misdemeanor.