§ 54-a. Scheduling of legislative consideration of budget bills. The legislature shall by concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly prescribe by joint rule or rules a procedure for:

Terms Used In N.Y. Legislative Law 54-A

  • 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
  • Budget resolution: Legislation in the form of a concurrent resolution setting forth the budget. The budget resolution establishes various budget totals, divides spending totals into functional categories (e.g., transportation), and may include reconciliation instructions to designated committees.
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.

1. establishing a joint budget conference committee or joint budget conference committees within ten days following the submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, to consider and reconcile such budget resolution or budget bills as may be passed by each house; and

2. promulgating a schedule within ten days following the submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, for considering and acting upon such budget appropriation and related bills which shall include:

(a) dates for those actions required to be taken by the legislature pursuant to section fifty-three of this chapter;

(b) dates for public hearings on submissions by the governor as required by section thirty-two-a of this chapter;

(c) a date for the establishment of joint budget conference committee or committees; and

(d) a date by which such joint budget conference committee or committees shall issue their final reports.

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