§ 179-r. Program plan submission. 1. Each state agency receiving an appropriation of state or federal funds for any program shall produce and immediately thereafter submit a program plan to the division of the budget, the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee. Such program plan shall be submitted not more than forty-five days following the latest date on which any of the appropriations covered by the program plan become law except as provided by section one hundred seventy-nine-x of this article.

Terms Used In N.Y. State Finance Law 179-R

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Certificate of approval: means the document approved by the director of the budget that authorizes an agency to expend funds in accordance with section forty-nine of this chapter. See N.Y. State Finance Law 179-Q
  • Program: means a provision of law authorizing a state agency to undertake activities that are to be accomplished in whole or in part through contracts with not-for-profit organizations. See N.Y. State Finance Law 179-Q
  • Program plan: means the document developed by a state agency, which shall include for each program: (a) the amounts to be allocated for renewal of contracts; (b) the amounts to be allocated for new contracts; (c) the method by which all contracts will be awarded, such methods shall include, but not be limited to, requests for proposals, preferred provider, and sole source; (d) the timetable for the selection of providers and contract development, including but not limited to, timetables for RFP development and response and provider notification; and (e) the timetable for promulgation of regulations as may be required for implementation. See N.Y. State Finance Law 179-Q
  • State agency: means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, office, council, institution or committee in the executive branch of government, the urban development corporation or the natural heritage trust to which an appropriation is made for the purposes of carrying out a program as defined herein. See N.Y. State Finance Law 179-Q

2. The division of the budget shall have not more than ninety days following the latest date on which any of the appropriations covered by the program plan become law to issue a certificate of approval for each item of appropriation included in the program plan. A copy of such certificate of approval shall be forwarded to the senate finance committee, the assembly ways and means committee and the office of the state comptroller.

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