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                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 16, 2013
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Introduced  by  M. of A. CLARK, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  BARCLAY, FINCH, HEVESI, HOOPER, KOLB, MAISEL -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the fiscal year

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3 of the state finance law,
as  added  by chapter 1 of the laws of 1943 and as separately renumbered
by chapters 405 and 957 of the laws of 1981,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1. The current fiscal year of the state which commenced with the first
day  of  July,  nineteen hundred forty-two, is hereby abridged and shall
end with the thirty-first day of March,  nineteen  hundred  forty-three.
For  all  purposes  of  determining annual increments of state employees
pursuant to the education law, the civil service law or other state law,
and for all purposes whenever by law some act is to be performed or time
is to be measured by the fiscal year of the state,  the  current  fiscal
year,  as  so  abridged,  shall  be  deemed to be a full year unless the
context clearly requires a contrary construction.
  On and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred forty-three, the
fiscal year of the state, for the  purpose  of  budget,  appropriations,
receipts  and  disbursements of state moneys and all other state affairs
which are regulated in accordance with or based on fiscal years, includ-
ing the fiscal affairs of all state  departments,  commissions,  boards,
agencies,  offices  and  institutions, shall begin with the first day of
April and end with the next following thirty-first day of March  HOWEVER
COMMENCING  WITH  THE  YEAR  TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN, SHALL BEGIN WITH THE
FIRST OF APRIL AND END WITH THE NEXT FOLLOWING THIRTIETH  OF  APRIL  AND
EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER SHALL BEGIN WITH THE FIRST OF MAY AND END WITH THE
NEXT FOLLOWING THIRTIETH OF APRIL.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06306-01-3

              

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  2.  All  books  and accounts in the offices of the comptroller and the
department of taxation and finance shall be kept by  fiscal  years.  All
annual  accounts  required  to be rendered to the comptroller or to such
department by any person shall be closed  on  the  thirty-first  day  of
March  in  each  year AND COMMENCING WITH THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN
SHALL BE CLOSED ON THE THIRTIETH OF APRIL IN EACH YEAR, and be  rendered
as soon thereafter as practicable, if no time is specially prescribed by
law.
  S  2.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law to the contrary
commencing with the year 2014, the fiscal year shall end on the  thirti-
eth  of  April  and every year thereafter shall commence on the first of
May and end on the thirtieth of April. And commencing with the year 2014
any reference to the thirty-first of March shall be deemed to mean thir-
tieth of April and every year thereafter any reference to the  first  of
April shall be deemed to mean the first of May.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.