§ 24 — Budget bills

§ 24. Budget bills. 1. The budget submitted annually by the governor\nshall be simultaneously accompanied by a bill or bills for all proposed\nappropriations and reappropriations and for the proposed measures of\ntaxation or other legislation, if any, recommended therein. Such bills\nshall be submitted by the governor and shall be known as budget bills.\n (a) For all non-federal state operations appropriations, such bill or\nbills shall only contain itemized appropriations and shall be made,\nwhere practicable, by agency and within each agency by program and\nwithin each program at the following level of detail and in the\nfollowing order:\n (i) by fund type, which at a minimum shall include general fund,\nspecial revenue-other funds, capital projects funds, and debt service\nfunds;\n (ii) for personal service appropriations, separate appropriations\nshall be made for regular personal service, temporary personal service,\nand holiday and overtime pay;\n (iii) for nonpersonal service appropriations, separate appropriations\nshall be made for supplies and materials, travel, contractual services,\nequipment, and fringe benefits, as appropriate.\n (b) Any appropriation for temporary assistance for needy families, the\nenvironmental protection fund, and the medical assistance program, shall\nonly contain itemized appropriations which shall not be in the form of\nlump sum appropriations, provided, however, for the purposes of the\nmedical assistance program, itemized appropriations shall consist of\ncategories-of-service with separate appropriations for hospital\ninpatient, hospital outpatient and emergency room, clinic, nursing home,\nother long-term care, managed care, pharmacy, dental, transportation,\nand other non-institutional services.\n 2. (a) On or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-four, no\nbudget bill submitted by the governor may include any proposed\nappropriation or reappropriation for any capital project which is not\nincluded in the capital plan presented as part of the budget submitted\npursuant to section twenty-two of this article. Each proposed\nappropriation or reappropriation for a capital project shall bear the\ncapital plan project reference number or numbers to which it shall\npertain, and shall be classified into the same category as the\nassociated capital project or projects have been classified in such\ncapital plan. Reappropriations of appropriations effective for fiscal\nyears beginning prior to April first, nineteen hundred eighty-four may\nbe presented by the categories of appropriation contained in the bill\noriginally enacting such appropriation.\n (b) On or after January first, two thousand ten, any budget bill\nsubmitted by the governor containing a proposed appropriation from the\ndedicated highway and bridge trust fund shall be itemized to show the\nfollowing information for each such appropriation:\n (i) each amount appropriated from the dedicated highway and bridge\ntrust fund for capital purposes;\n (ii) the amount of each such appropriation to be used for personal\nservice expenses; and\n (iii) the amount of each such appropriation to be used for\nnon-personal service expenses.\n 3. Any appropriation for maintenance undistributed shall be shown as\napportioned among the items covered to the extent practicable.\n 4. Any appropriation added to such budget bills, pursuant to section\nfour of article seven of the constitution, shall only contain itemized\nappropriations which shall not be in the form of lump sum\nappropriations, and provided further that for all non-federal state\noperations appropriations, such bill or bills shall only contain\nitemized appropriations and shall be made, where practicable, by agency,\nand within each agency by program and within each program at the\nfollowing level of detail and in the following order:\n (a) by fund type, which at a minimum shall include general fund,\nspecial revenue-other funds, capital projects funds and debt service\nfunds;\n (b) for personal service appropriations, separate appropriations shall\nbe made for regular personal service, temporary personal service, and\nholiday and overtime pay;\n (c) for nonpersonal service appropriations, separate appropriations\nshall be made for supplies and materials, travel, contractual services,\nequipment and fringe benefits, as appropriate.\n 5. Any appropriation added pursuant to section four of article seven\nof the constitution without designating a grantee shall be allocated\nonly pursuant to a plan setting forth an itemized list of grantees with\nthe amount to be received by each, or the methodology for allocating\nsuch appropriation. Such plan shall be subject to the approval of the\nchair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways\nand means committee, and the director of the budget, and thereafter\nshall be included in a concurrent resolution calling for the expenditure\nof such monies, which resolution must be approved by a majority vote of\nall members elected to each house upon a roll call vote.\n