57 new budget provisions in Senate
March 14, 2022
In all, the Senate added 57 new proposals (beyond what the Governor proposed) in their Senate one house bill. See list below from Politico:
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State Senate budget resolution
All 57 of the new budget provisions proposed by state Senate Democrats:
* NEW PART KK — The Senate advances language to phase out the charging of mandatory fees to graduate student workers at CUNY.
* NEW PART VV — The Senate advances language to integrate the Office of Addiction Services and Supports and Office of Mental Health to create one merged behavioral health agency, the Office of Addiction and Mental Health Services (S.5084-C).
* NEW PART MM — The Senate advances language to restore the Comptroller’s oversight authority for certain procurement contracts, including SUNY medical services and CUNY Construction Fund Contracts (S.6809-A).
* NEW PART KK — The Senate advances language to phase out the charging of mandatory fees to graduate student workers at CUNY.
* NEW PART WWW — The Senate advances language for the corresponding ConnectALL Executive appropriation to create the Division of Broadband Development within the Department of Economic Development to implement the Working to Implement Reliable and Equitable Deployment of Broadband Act (WIRED Broadband Act) and to establish grant programs to support broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas, assist municipalities with broadband projects, and increase adoption and access to affordable, equitable, and reliable high-speed broadband across the State.
* NEW PART A-1 — The Senate advances language to:
o Pause the annual reconciliation process for special education schools for five years and require the State Education Department to assemble a task force to replace the current rate setting methodology structure.
o Increase the aidable salaries for staff providing career and technical education services through BOCES.
o Extend reimbursement for ninth graders in Special Services Aid for non-component school districts.
o Strengthen reporting on the American Rescue Plan and Foundation Aid funds to include broader stakeholder input, goals, and ratios for pupil support, personnel, detailed summaries of investments in current year initiatives, and balance funds spent in priority areas.
o Expand capital outlay authority to school districts.
o Increase building aid reimbursement for districts that have historically low rates of reimbursement but that have a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch.
o Repeal current law that requires school districts to submit school level funding plans that are duplicative with requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.
o Authorize 4201 schools to establish a fiscal reserve fund.
o Hold harmless 4410s, 853s and Special Act schools from enrollment fluctuation of students due to COVID for the 2021-22 school year.
o Expand community school grants and the distribution of funding.
o Authorize the Peekskill City School District to apply to the Commissioner of Education to receive an apportionment.
* NEW PART III — The Senate advances language to expand the Empire State Development Corporation’s database of all economic development benefits, subsidies, and tax incentives and to make specific information regarding economic development awards more available to the public (S.5711-A).
* NEW PART TTT — The Senate advances language amending the Small Business Recovery Grant Program to make it more accessible and expand eligibility.
* NEW PART VVV — The Senate advances language authorizing an independent analysis of economic development-related tax benefits, tax incentives, and tax deductions.
* NEW PART UUU — The Senate advances language to create a clean fuel standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector (S.2962A).
* NEW PART MM — The Senate advances a proposal to permit additional applicants to apply for mobile sports wagering licenses and mandates that the request for proposals integrate a scoring factor that encourages diversity in the market, including minorities, women, and service-disabled veterans in applicant ownership, leadership, and Workforce.
* NEW PART JJ — The Senate advances language to require cost comparison reviews of consulting services as compared to the State workforce (S.5356).
* NEW PART QQ — The Senate advances language to adjust activity of daily living-based restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under Medicaid (S.5028-A).
* NEW PART RR — The Senate advances language to establish a base wage for home care workers at 150 percent of the regional minimum wage and a regional minimum rate of reimbursement for fiscal intermediaries (S.5374-A).
* NEW PART SS — The Senate advances language to codify the Quality Incentive Vital Access Provider Program and provide funding to support its growth.
* NEW PART TT — The Senate advances language to nullify certain provisions which exempted contracts providing health related services from competitive bidding requirements.
* NEW PART XX — The Senate advances language to require a study of the Consumer Directed Personal Care Program and to pause any program changes while such study is underway.
* NEW PART MM — The Senate advances language to reform the Tuition Assistance Program by increasing the income threshold from $80,000 to $110,000 and increasing the minimum TAP Award from $500 to $1,000. Changes in eligibility shall apply to students attending both public and private colleges and universities.
* NEW PART NN — The Senate advances a new proposal to create the Housing Access Voucher Program, which would provide rental assistance in the form of vouchers to individuals who are homeless or facing imminent risk of becoming homeless, as proposed by S.2804.
* NEW PART LL – The Senate advances language to increase reimbursement rates for legal representation under the 18-B Assigned Counsel Program as proposed in S.3527-A.
* NEW PART HH — The Senate advances language to establish a nighttime Family Court pilot program in New York City (S.3683-D).
* NEW PART JJ — The Senate advances language to set the unemployment insurance tax contribution rates for employers in the fiscal years of 2022 and 2023 and raise the maximum benefit rate for claimants, as proposed in S.6791-A, which passed the Senate earlier this year.
* NEW PART CC — The Senate advances language to increase auditing by the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) and reform the board of the Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) as proposed in S.8381-A.
* NEW PART DD — The Senate advances language to authorize the South Shore Water Authority created in 2021 to have a dedicated stream of funding identical to what was provided to the North Shore Water Authority when these separate bills were passed and signed into law in 2021, as proposed in S.7864.
* NEW PART EE — The Senate advances language to cap the interest rate to 7.5% for delinquent taxes on owner occupied residential real property, as proposed in S.6310.
* NEW PART FF — The Senate advances language to establish a legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority as provided for in S.7576A.
* NEW PART GG — The Senate advances language to permit extended bonding authority for the City of Long Beach to pay a substantial settlement to ease the resulting tax burden on constituents as a result of the resulting debt obligation.
* NEW PART II –The Senate advances language to authorize fees for emergency medical expenses provided by fire departments, as proposed in S.7186A.
* NEW PART RRR — The Senate advances language to create a climate disaster and hurricane relief fund as proposed in, S.8135.
* NEW PART WW — The Senate advances a new proposal to create a crisis intervention team demonstration program to assist law enforcement officers in responding to crisis situations involving individuals with mental illness and/or substance use disorder (S.4748).
* NEW PART SSS — The Senate advances language requiring the MTA to publish additional reports on its website.
* NEW PART JJJ — The Senate advances language prohibiting school buses from parking on streets in the City of New York on nights and weekends (S.208).
* NEW PART PPP — The Senate advances language authorizing the City of New York to establish coordinated traffic control lights, known as scramble crosswalks, around school arrival and dismissal times (S.2880).
* NEW PART PPP — The Senate advances language authorizing the City of New York to establish coordinated traffic control lights, known as scramble crosswalks, around school arrival and dismissal times (S.2880).
* NEW PART KK — The Senate advances language to phase out the charging of mandatory fees to graduate student workers at SUNY.
* NEW PART MM — The Senate advances language to reform the Tuition Assistance Program by increasing the income threshold from $80,000 to $110,000 and increasing the minimum TAP Award from $500 to $1,000.
* NEW PART LL — The Senate advances language to require the general fund cover costs associated with SUNY hospital debt service (S.7684).
* NEW PART OO — The Senate advances a new proposal to mandate that, when sending the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) proposal plan to the federal government, the State must apply to use the most generous eligibility criteria available, such as the use of net income as opposed to gross income for eligibility calculation, and the prioritization for assistance to households with high home energy burdens, elderly persons, young children, disabled persons, those receiving veterans benefits, and those with supplemental security income. The proposal also requires OTDA to develop materials to inform the public of new and existing utility assistance programs.
* NEW PART PP — The Senate advances a new proposal that clarifies that public assistance debtor liens against real property incurred prior to April 1, 2022 remain intact, however, no new public assistance debt can become a lien against real property after that effective date. Additionally, this part ensures existing liens against real property cannot be enforced if a child of the debtor remains in the home; allows burial costs to be deducted from the public assistance debt in the event of the death of the debtor, and the debtor or their estate is entitled to any balance left after the social services district has recovered the amount due to them under the mortgage.
* NEW PART KKK — The Senate advances language establishing a hyperloop and high-speed rail commission (S.5607-A).
* NEW PART LLL — The Senate advances language to include resurfacing, maintenance, and pavement recycling in the Complete Streets Law (S.5130).
* NEW PART MMM — The Senate advances language requiring the radius for paratransit coverage from fixed route services to be at least three miles (S.5092).
* NEW PART NNN — The Senate advances language increasing the State funding match for local projects that use Complete Streets design features (S.3897).
* NEW PART OOO — The Senate advances language updating the arterial maintenance formula for municipalities (S.3529).
* NEW PART KK — The Senate advances language to eliminate the requirement that localities adhere to the property tax cap in order to be eligible for reimbursement due to Raise the Age expenditures. Article VII Proposal (S.8008-B)
* NEW PART QQQ — The Senate advances language restoring the Public Authorities Control Board’s pre-existing oversight (S.7337).
* NEW PART FF — The Senate advances language to establish a caregiver tax credit program capped at $35 million (S.620).
* NEW PART GG — The Senate advances language to fully decouple New York’s tax code from the Opportunity Zones program (S.6800).
* NEW PART HH — The Senate advances language to double the maximum solar energy system equipment credit from $5,000 to $10,000.
* NEW PART II — The Senate advances language to create a tax credit of up to $5,000 for geothermal energy systems (S.3864).
* NEW PART JJ — The Senate advances language to create a property tax abatement in New York City for retrofitting space to establish childcare centers.
* NEW PART KK — The Senate advances language to expand the earned income tax credit for New York City taxpayers.
* NEW PART LL — The Senate advances language to create a new Digital Gaming Media Credit program capped at $20 million.
* NEW PART NN — The Senate advances language to extend the Jockey Compensation Insurance Fund.
* NEW PART OO — The Senate advances language to permit deductions for business expenses relating to commercial cannabis activity (S.7518).
* NEW PART PP — The Senate advances language to suspend certain state taxes on gasoline sales from May 1 to December 31.
* NEW PART QQ — The Senate advances language to increase the earned income tax credit (EITC) from 30 percent of the federal credit to 37.5 percent of the federal credit, phased-in over 4 years.