A3219-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to environmental conservation
• Jan 24, 2011: referred to environmental conservation

A3219-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3219
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 January 24, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. SWEENEY, WEISENBERG, PEOPLES-STOKES, ZEBROWSKI,
 LUPARDO, CYMBROWITZ,  COLTON,  JAFFEE,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  MARKEY,  MAISEL,
 BENEDETTO,  SPANO, CASTRO, PHEFFER, PAULIN, ARROYO, SCHIMEL, KAVANAGH,
 MILLMAN, ROSENTHAL, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BOYLAND,
 CASTELLI,  DESTITO,  GLICK,  GUNTHER,  HOOPER, JACOBS, MAGEE, McENENY,
 THIELE -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
 Conservation
 AN  ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the environmental
 protection fund
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1. Subdivision 9 of section 92-s of the state finance law, as
 amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2008,  is
 amended to read as follows:

 9.  Notwithstanding  any  other  law to the contrary and in accordance
 with section four of this chapter, the comptroller is hereby  authorized
 at the direction of the director of the division of the budget to trans
 fer  moneys  from  the general fund to the environmental protection fund
 for the  purpose  of  maintaining  the  solvency  of  the  environmental
 protection  fund.  If,  in  any fiscal year, moneys in the environmental
 protection fund are deemed insufficient by the director of the  division
 of the budget [to meet actual and anticipated disbursements from enacted
 appropriations  or  reappropriations made pursuant to this section], the
 comptroller shall [at the direction of the director of the  division  of
 the  budget,]  transfer  SUFFICIENT  MONEYS from the general fund to the
 environmental protection fund [moneys sufficient to meet such  disburse-
 ments].  Such  transfers shall be made only upon certification [of need]
 by the director of the division of  the  budget,  with  copies  of  such
 certification  filed  with the chairperson of the senate finance commit
 tee, the chairperson of the assembly ways and means  committee  and  the
 state  comptroller.  The  aggregate  amount  of  all transfers shall not
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02956-02-1
 
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 exceed four hundred forty-seven million one hundred seventy-one thousand
 dollars.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION,  THE  TERM  INSUFFICIENT
 SHALL  MEAN  THAT  THERE  IS NOT AN ADEQUATE CASH BALANCE TO FINANCE ALL
 CURRENT  FISCAL YEAR APPROPRIATIONS AND ANY OUTSTANDING PRIOR YEAR OBLI
 GATIONS.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2013.

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