2006 New York Code - Plans And Estimates.

 
    § 23. Plans and estimates. 1. Capital projects design and construction
  plans; preparation, approval and implementation. It shall be the duty of
  the  division  of the budget to coordinate the activities of the several
  departments and agencies of the state with respect to the  planning  and
  implementation  of  state  capital projects proposed to be undertaken by
  the departments and agencies, and in  the  discharge  of  the  duty  the
  director  of  the  budget  shall,  with  the  approval  of the governor,
  establish appropriate  procedures  with  respect  to  the  planning  and
  implementation.  The  head  of  any  department  or  agency of the state
  proposing to undertake the design or construction of a  capital  project
  shall  apply  to the division of the budget and request approval for any
  such work to be undertaken. The director of the budget  may  approve  or
  disapprove  any  such  application,  and  if approved, may authorize the
  preparation of plans for the project or the advertising for bids for the
  construction of the project and may allocate  funds  therefor  from  any
  moneys appropriated and available for the purpose.
    2.  Capital  projects; initial submissions. So far as may be possible,
  the governor shall cause to be submitted to the chairman of  the  senate
  finance  committee  and  the  chairman  of  the  assembly ways and means
  committee for the use of the  committees  and  the  information  of  the
  legislature,  at  or  prior  to  the  time that the budget is submitted,
  preliminary plans and estimates relating to each of the capital projects
  for which appropriations are recommended in the budget, and in the  case
  of  proposed  acquisitions  of  land,  a  general  approximation  of the
  location of the land.
    3. Financial plans and capital improvement program; revisions. As soon
  as practicable after the legislature has completed action on the  budget
  bills  submitted  by  the governor for state purposes, local assistance,
  capital projects and debt  service,  the  governor  shall  cause  to  be
  submitted  to  the  legislature the revisions to the financial plans and
  the capital plan required by subdivisions one, two and five  of  section
  twenty-two  of  this  chapter  as  are  necessary  to  account  for  all
  enactments affecting the financial plans  and  the  capital  plan.  Such
  revised  plans shall be submitted to the legislature in the same form as
  the plans required by such subdivisions.
    4. Financial plan updates. Quarterly, throughout the fiscal year,  the
  governor  shall  submit to the chair of the senate finance committee and
  the chair of the assembly ways and means committee for the  use  of  the
  committees and the information of the legislature, within thirty days of
  the  close  of  the  quarter  to  which it shall pertain, a report which
  summarizes the actual experience to date of receipts, disbursements, tax
  refunds, and repayments of advances  presented  in  forms  suitable  for
  comparison with the financial plan submitted pursuant to subdivision one
  of section twenty-two of this article and revised in accordance with the
  provisions  of  subdivision  three  of  this section. The governor shall
  submit with the budget and on September first of  each  year  a  similar
  report  that  summarizes revenue and expenditure experience to date in a
  form suitable for comparison with the financial plan submitted  pursuant
  to  subdivision two of section twenty-two of this article and revised in
  accordance with the provisions of subdivision  three  of  this  section.
  Such  reports  shall  provide  an explanation of the causes of any major
  deviations from the revised financial plans and, shall provide  for  the
  amendment of the plan or plans to reflect those deviations. The governor
  may, if he determines it advisable, provide more frequent reports to the
  legislature  regarding  actual  experience  as compared to the financial
  plans. The quarterly financial plan update  most  proximate  to  October
  thirty-first   of  each  year  shall  include  the  calculation  of  the
  limitations on the issuance of state-supported debt computed pursuant to
  the provisions of subdivisions one and two of section  sixty-seven-b  of
  this chapter.
    5.  Financial  information  review.  Annually  on  or  before November
  fifteenth, the governor, temporary  president  of  the  senate  and  the
  speaker  of  the  assembly  shall  cause  their  respective  appropriate
  personnel to  meet  for  the  purpose  of  jointly  reviewing  available
  financial  information  and  developing  a  process to facilitate timely
  adoption of a budget for  the  next  fiscal  year.  Such  process  shall
  include  meetings  to  discuss  the economic outlook, revenue forecasts,
  projected spending, the impact of relevant state and  federal  statutory
  provisions,  and  any  other  matters deemed appropriate. Not later than
  December fifteenth, such personnel shall report to their  principals  on
  the steps necessary to accomplish the adoption of a timely budget.
    6.  Consensus economic and revenue forecasting conference; report. (a)
  In the month of March in each year, prior  to  the  report  required  by
  paragraph  (b) of this subdivision, the chairperson and ranking minority
  member of the senate finance  committee,  the  chairperson  and  ranking
  minority  member  of  the  assembly  ways  and  means  committee and the
  director of the budget shall jointly convene a  consensus  economic  and
  revenue    forecasting    conference    in   the   form   of   a   joint
  legislative-executive hearing, for the purpose of assisting the governor
  and the legislature in reaching the consensus revenue forecast  required
  by  paragraph  (b)  of this subdivision. The conveners of the conference
  shall invite such participants to the  conference  as  shall,  in  their
  judgment,  provide  guidance  on the current conditions in, and probable
  outlook for the performance of, the economy of the state, as well as the
  effect of such conditions and such performance on state receipts.
    (b) On or before March tenth in each year, the director of the  budget
  and  the  secretary of the senate finance committee and the secretary of
  the assembly ways  and  means  committee  shall  issue  a  joint  report
  containing  a  consensus forecast of the economy and of receipts for the
  current and the ensuing state fiscal year. The report shall include, but
  shall not be limited to, the following  information,  presented  on  the
  cash  basis  of accounting: expected tax receipts on an all-funds basis,
  projected lottery receipts, and anticipated miscellaneous receipts to be
  received in the general fund.