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Senate Resolution No. 555
 
BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS
 
        RESOLUTION  in  response  to the 2023-2024 Executive
        Budget  submission  (Legislative   Bills   S.4000-A,
        S.4001,   S.4002,   S.4003-A,   S.4004-A,  S.4005-A,
        S.4006-A,  S.4007-A,  S.4008-A,  S.4009-A)   to   be
        adopted  as  legislation  expressing the position of
        the New York State Senate relating to the  2023-2024
        New York State Budget
 
WHEREAS,  It  is  the  intent  of  the Senate to effectuate the timely
passage of a State Budget; and
 
WHEREAS, It is the intent of  the  Senate  to  engage  in  the  Budget
Conference  Committee process, which promotes increased participation by
the members of the Legislature and the public; and
 
WHEREAS, The Senate Finance Committee has conducted an extensive study
and review of the Governor's 2023-2024 Executive Budget  submission  and
has  recommended  proposed  amendments  to such Budget submission in the
above referenced Legislative Bills and Report on the  Executive  Budget;
and
 
WHEREAS,  Article  VII of the New York State Constitution provides the
framework under which the New York State Budget  is  submitted,  amended
and  enacted.  The New York State Courts have limited the Legislature in
how it may change the appropriations bills submitted  by  the  Governor.
The Legislature can delete or reduce items of appropriation contained in
the several appropriation bills submitted by the Governor in conjunction
with   the  Executive  Budget,  and  it  can  add  additional  items  of
appropriation to those bills provided that  such  additions  are  stated
separately  and distinctly from the original items of the bill and refer
each to a single object or purpose; and
 
WHEREAS, An extensive study and review  of  the  Governor's  2023-2024
Executive  Budget  submission  has revealed that the construction of the
budget bills submitted to the Legislature by the Governor constrains the
Legislature in its ability to fully effectuate its  intent  in  amending
the Governor's budget submission; and
 
WHEREAS,  The  Senate  has  amended the Governor's 2023-2024 Executive
Budget submission to the fullest extent possible  within  the  authority
provided  to  it  pursuant  to  Section 4 of Article VII of the New York
State Constitution; and
 
WHEREAS, The Senate, in addition to the Governor's 2023-2024 Executive
Budget submission bills as amended by the Senate in the above referenced
legislative  bills,  does  hereby  provide  its  recommendations  as  to
provisions in the Governor's 2023-2024 Executive Budget submission which
reflect  those  items  the  Senate  is  constrained from effectuating as
amendments to the 2023-2024 Executive Budget appended hereto; and
 
WHEREAS, It is the intent of the Senate that upon the passage  of  the
Governor's  2023-2024  Executive  Budget  submission  as  amended by the
 
Senate, the incorporated Report on  the  Amended  Executive  Budget  may
provide a basis for both houses of the Legislature to convene Committees
on  Conference pursuant to Joint Rule III of the Senate and Assembly for
the purpose of reconciling any differences between the amendments to the
Governor's  budget  as  proposed  by each house of the Legislature; now,
therefore, be it
 
RESOLVED, That the above  referenced  Legislative  Bills  be  and  are
incorporated  as  part  of this resolution and are hereby adopted as the
New York State Senate's budget proposal for the 2023-2024 New York State
Budget.
 
REPORT ON THE AMENDED EXECUTIVE BUDGET
 
ALL STATE AGENCIES AND OPERATIONS
 
Adirondack Park Agency
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $6.3
    million.
 
Aging, Office for the
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $12.8 million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $291
    million as follows:
      o Adds  $15  million to support Community Services for the Elderly
        Program.
      o Adds $13 million to  support  an  8.5  percent  Cost  of  Living
        Adjustment.
      o Adds $5 million to support Guardianship providers services.
      o Adds  $3  million  to  support  Naturally  Occurring  Retirement
        Community (NORC) and Neighborhood NORC Programs.
      o Adds $2 million to support the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program.
      o Adds $1.9  million  to  support  Legislative  Grants,  including
        $900,000  to  support  a  restoration  of prior year Legislative
        Grants.
      o Adds $1.6 million to support the Holocaust Survivors Initiative,
        including $700,000 to support a restoration of prior year Senate
        Legislative Grants.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4007-B)
  * PART G -- The Senate accepts the Executive  proposal  to  lower  the
    income  threshold  for  private  pay  protocols for Area Agencies on
    Aging from 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level to  250  percent
    to allow more seniors the option of accessing and receiving services
    via private payment.
  * PART  Z  --  The  Senate  modifies  the Executive proposal requiring
    assisted living residences to report to the Department of Health  on
    quality  measures which the Department will use to grant an advanced
    standing  classification  by  omitting  the  provisions  related  to
    modified  inspection schedules for facilities with advanced standing
 
    classification  or  that  obtain  accreditation  from  a  nationally
    recognized accreditor.
 
Agriculture and Markets, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $182.5
    million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $67.9 million as
    follows:
      o Restores:
          -$4  million  for  socially  and  economically   disadvantaged
            farmers.
          -$1 million for beginning farmer.
          -$481,000 for the Cornell Vet Diagnostic Lab.
          -$300,000 for Cornell hops breeding research.
          -$250,000 for the pro-dairy climate specialist.
          -$199,000 for Cornell farm labor specialist.
          -$100,000 for the John May farm safety fund.
          -$100,000 for Black Farmers United.
          -$75,000 for Cornell maple research.
          -$75,000 for Cornell vegetable research.
          -$75,000 for the Maple Producers Association.
          -$50,000 for Cornell concord grape research.
          -$50,000 for Cornell Geneva barley experimentation.
          -$50,000 for Empire Sheep producers.
          -$50,000 for the Hop Growers of New York.
          -$20,000 for Cornell onion research.
          -$20,000 for Teens for Food Justice.
      o Provides Additional:
          -$1.5 million for the Farm Viability Institute.
          -$1  million  for  Cornell  to study the ecological impacts of
            agrivoltaics.
          -$850,000 for the Farmland for a New Generation program.
          -$517,000 for the Apple Growers Association.
          -$500,000 for the Cornell livestock systems team.
          -$500,000 for Grow NYC.
          -$200,000 for the Northeast Organic Farmers Association.
          -$200,000 for the Turfgrass Environmental Stewardship Fund.
          -$125,000 for the Wine and Grape Foundation.
          -$100,000 for the Cannabis Growers Association.
          -$74,000 for the Cider Association.
          -$24,000 for the Brewers Association.
          -$24,000 for the Distillers Guild.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $46.6 million as
    follows:
      o Restores:
          -$5 million for Cornell Climate Adaptive Farms.
          -$5 million for local fairs.
          -$3 million for the companion animal fund.
      o Adds:
          -$1 million for a Hudson Valley research lab.
          -$465,000 for Grow NYC for a Regional Food Hub in Hunts Point.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART  OO  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to authorize
    local governments, school districts, and BOCES  to  purchase  up  to
    $250,000 of food grown, produced, or harvested in New York without a
    formal  competitive  process  by  adding language to direct New York
    State agencies and related entities to increase  the  percentage  of
    food  they  source  from  New  York producers to 30 percent (amended
    version of S.3125).
 
Alcoholic Beverage Control, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All Funds recommendation of $5
    million, a decrease of $45 million or 90 percent  from  SFY  2022-23
    levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $78.2 million, an increase of $15.8 million or 25.2 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART K -- The Senate  intentionally  omits  the  Executive  proposal
    requiring  the  State Liquor Authority to draft and post a technical
    rewrite of  the  Alcoholic  Beverage  Control  Law  and  anticipates
    reviewing SLA's language when it is presented to the Legislature.
  * PART L -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to create a new
    wholesale  temporary  permit  by  lengthening  the  duration of such
    permits.
  * PART M -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    grant  automatic  approvals  for  applications for corporate changes
    that do not violate the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
  * PART N -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    allow   license   applicants   to  notify  municipalities  of  their
    application on the same day they apply.
  * PART O -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to  permanently
    extend  and  amend  the  temporary retail permit program by omitting
    language that would have expanded the eligible locations in New York
    City and limiting  the  increase  in  the  length  of  extension  to
    applications for locations outside New York City.
 
Addiction Services and Supports, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  All  Funds recommendation of $174.6
    million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $968.6
    million as follows:
      o Adds $40 million to support  the  Opioid  Settlement  Fund  with
        appropriation  language  to  support programs recommended by the
        Opioid  Advisory  Board.    The  Senate  is  open   to   further
        discussions on further supporting harm reduction strategies.
      o Adds  $34  million  to  support  an  8.5  percent Cost of Living
        Adjustment.
      o Adds $5 million to support Legislative Grants.
 
          -$3 million to support restoration of prior  year  Legislative
            Grants.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $92 million.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4007-B)
  * NEW PART MM --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  allow  for  the
    expansion  of treatment services provided at the Office of Addiction
    Services and Supports treatment centers  to  include  treatment  for
    mental  health  and  physical  health  care  needs of the individual
    (S.3525).
 
Audit and Control, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $554.7  million,  an  increase of $98.3 million or 21.5 percent from
    SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  to
    decrease  $32  million  or  100  percent of funding from SFY 2022-23
    levels.  This  is  due  to  the  Special  Accidental  Death  Benefit
    appropriation transitioning to a miscellaneous appropriation.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $2.8 million, a decrease of $27.3 million or 90.6 percent  from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Budget, Division of the
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $50.2
    million, a decrease of $537,000 or  1.1  percent  from  SFY  2022-23
    levels,  by restoring $537,000 in membership dues for the Council of
    State Government, National Conference of Insurance Legislators,  and
    National Conference of State Legislatures.
 
Children and Family Services, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $556.1
    million, an increase of $3.3 million or 0.6 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $7.9 billion, an
    increase of $1.5 billion or 41.8 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels, as
    follows:
      o Eliminates:
          -$4.8 million for the Employer-Supported Childcare Pilot.
      o Restores:
          -$2.4 million for 2-1-1.
          -$1.9 million in  additional  support  for  the  Kinship  Care
            Program, for a total of $2.2 million.
 
          -$1.5  million in additional support for the Youth Development
            Program, for a total of $15.6 million.
          -$4.5   million   for   Child   Care   Facilitated  Enrollment
            Demonstration Projects in New  York  City  ($500,000),  Erie
            County  ($500,000),  and  Onondaga County ($500,000), Nassau
            County ($1.5 million), and Suffolk County ($1.5 million).
          -$600,000 for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, for a  total
            of $7.08 million.
      o Adds:
          -$35   million   in   additional   support   to  increase  the
            reimbursement rate  for  Child  Welfare  Financing  from  62
            percent to 65 percent, for a total of $35 million.
          -$20.4  million  to  provide  an  additional 6 percent Cost of
            Living Adjustment (COLA) to all human service workers for  a
            total of 8.5 percent.
          -$10  million  to  establish  a  statewide  Youth Sports Grant
            Program.
          -$9.4  million  in  additional  support  for   the   Advantage
            Afterschool  programs  to  be  administered in the Office of
            Children and Family Services.
          -$5 million in additional support for Child Advocacy  Centers,
            for a total of $10.2 million.
          -$20 million to support legislative initiatives.
      o Child Care
          -$623  million  to  expand  child  care  eligibility up to 103
            percent of the State median income level in 2023. The Senate
            also proposes to increase  child  care  eligibility  to  129
            percent of the State median income level in 2024.
          -$500  million  for  the  Workforce  Retention  Grant program,
            providing up to $12,000 in salary enhancements to child care
            workers. Eligible child care workers must be employed  at  a
            childcare facility that serves families receiving subsidized
            child  care.  Employees will receive a proportional share of
            the $12,000 based  upon  the  percentage  of  an  employer's
            enrolled children that are receiving subsidized child care.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $60.11 million,
    a decrease of $33.5 million or 35.8 percent from SFY 2022-23  levels
    by  adding  $50 million to support the construction, conversion, and
    rehabilitation of properties to create and expand  access  to  child
    care.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4006-B)
  * PART  U  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend and
    improve New York State's child care  assistance  program  to  expand
    income eligibility to 103 percent of the State median income in 2023
    and to 129 percent of the State median income in 2024.
  * PART  V  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend the
    current  reimbursement  structure  for  residential  placements   of
    children  with special needs outside of New York for a period of one
    year.
  * PART W -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  permanently
    authorize the Close to Home program.
  * NEW  PART EE -- The Senate advances language to provide an allowance
    for diapers (S.1210).
  * NEW PART LL -- The Senate advances language  to  establish  a  youth
    sports initiative grant fund (S.2749-A).
 
  * NEW  PART  MM  --  The  Senate  advances  the principles of creating
    presumptive eligibility for child care  assistance  with  provisions
    permitting  recovery of assistance provided to ineligible applicants
    (S.4667).
  * The Senate supports providing child care assistance for children who
    are  not  currently eligible for State coverage and will explore new
    coverage  options,  including  expanded  use  of   the   Facilitated
    Enrollment Program.
 
City University of New York (CUNY)
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $3.1 billion by
    providing an additional:
      o $333 million for a CUNY Matching Endowment.
      o $149 million for general operating aid.
      o $13 million for the elimination of graduate student fees.
      o $4.9 million for CUNY SEEK.
      o $2.25 million for the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
      o $1 million for Mental Health Services.
      o $350,000 for CUNY Black Male Initiative.
      o $180,000 for CUNY LEADS.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $1.9 billion  as
    follows:
      o Provides an additional:
          -$8.7 million in operating aid for the community colleges.
          -$238,000  for  the  Arthur  Eve  Higher Education Opportunity
            Program.
      o Restores $3.6 million for child care centers.
      o Omits language requiring CUNY to submit a plan to  the  Division
        of  Budget  to  operate in the future without a base aid funding
        floor.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $643 million  as
    follows:
      o Restores:
          -$435  million  in  Flexible  Capital,  and  directs  CUNY  to
            prioritize increased funding for  projects  to  address  the
            greatest deferred maintenance needs.
          -$3  million  for  Maintenance  of  the CUNY School of Labor &
            Urban Studies.
      o Provides an additional $1 million  for  the  Center  for  Puerto
        Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4006-B)
  * PART  B  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    increase tuition at SUNY and CUNY.
  * PART C -- The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  ensure
    medication abortion access at SUNY and CUNY.
  * NEW PART CC -- The Senate advances language to eliminate current and
    future mandatory university fees to SUNY and CUNY graduate students,
    where  the  graduate  student  is  serving  either as a full-time or
    half-time graduate student worker (S.3500).
 
Civil Service, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $66.9 million, an increase of $15.8 million or 23.6 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  *  The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $2 million,
    unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART J -- The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  expand
    eligibility  for World Trade Center death and disability benefits to
    New York's organized militia.
  * PART S -- The Senate accepts the Executive  proposal  to  allow  the
    Department  of Civil Service or municipal commissions to establish a
    continuing eligible list for any class of positions  filled  through
    open competitive examination.
  * PART  T -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to increase the
    number of positions designated under the 55-B and 55-C  programs  to
    1,700 positions and to allow employees of those programs to transfer
    from non-competitive-class to competitive-class positions.
  * PART  V  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to extend the
    waiver on the income cap for retirees who return to work in a school
    setting by one year, until June 30, 2024.
  * PART W -- The Senate accepts the Executive  proposal  to  amend  the
    Contribution  Stabilization  Program for the State Retirement System
    to  provide  a  pathway  for  amortizing  employers   to   terminate
    participation  in  the  Contribution  Stabilization  Program if such
    employer has paid in  full  all  prior  year  amortization  amounts,
    including interest as determined by the State Comptroller.
  * PART  X  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    require that any  corporation,  district,  agency,  or  organization
    electing  to participate in the NYSHIP plan to pay interest for late
    payments.
  * PART Y -- The Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  include
    counties  in  the  list  of entities that pay the special accidental
    death  benefit  to  families  of  deceased   police   officers   and
    firefighters who died in the performance of their duties.
  * NEW  PART WW -- The Senate advances language to authorize police and
    fire members of the New York City Fire Department  pension  fund  to
    obtain  credit  for  certain  prior  service as an Emergency Medical
    Technician member (S.4794).
  * NEW PART BBB -- The Senate advances language to increase the cap  on
    retiree income from $35,000 to $50,000.
  * NEW  PART CCC -- The Senate advances language to provide that police
    officers in the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) who
    have or will transfer from the New York City  Employees'  Retirement
    System  (NYCERS)  to  the  New  York  State Police & Fire Retirement
    System (PFRS), will be able to transfer  service  credit  earned  in
    NYCERS towards their membership in PFRS (S.5557-A of 2022).
  * NEW  PART  EEE  --  The  Senate advances language to provide certain
    death benefits to correction officers, correction officer-sergeants,
    correction officer-captains, assistant wardens, associate wardens or
    wardens employed by Westchester County (S.1992).
  * NEW PART FFF -- The Senate  advances  language  to  provide  certain
    death benefits to fire marshals employed by Nassau County (S.3600).
 
Commission of Correction, State
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $3.9 million.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART C -- The Senate modifies the  Executive  proposal  to  purchase
    body  scanning  technology  for  State  Correctional  Facilities and
    Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) facilities by removing
    the authorization for body scanning technology to be  used  in  OCFS
    facilities.  The Senate also supports the inclusion of language that
    would allow Correctional Facility staff to be subject to a search by
    this body scanning technology.
 
Corrections and Community Supervision, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of  $3
    billion   by   modifying   appropriation  language  to  require  the
    Department to report on the status of implementation of  the  Humane
    Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $37 million.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $481.2 million.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART  D  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    lower the hiring age of corrections officers from  21-years  old  to
    19-years old.
  * NEW  PART  TT  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  conform  the
    definition of an  incarcerated  individual  with  a  serious  mental
    illness  to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness"
    in the Mental Hygiene Law (S.4621).
 
Council on the Arts
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $5.3
    million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $42.8 million as
    follows:
      o Restores:
          -$40 million for competitive grants.
          -$10  million  for  Regional Arts Councils Outside of New York
            City.
              * $1 million for ArtsWestchester.
              * $1 million for Arts Services Initiative of  Western  New
                York.
              * $1 million for Arts Mid-Hudson.
              * $1 million for Huntington Arts Council.
              * $1 million for Arts Center of the Capital Region.
              * $1 million for Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.
 
              * $1 million for CNY Arts.
              * $3 million via a RFP.
          -$1 million in Stabilization grants.
          -$750,000 for Senate initiatives.
      o Adds $5 million for Alive! Downtown Theatres.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive recommendation of no new capital
    funding by restoring:
      o $40 million for Arts and Cultural Facilities Improvements.
      o $10 million for Regional Arts Councils Outside of New York City.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4006-B)
  * NEW PART FF -- The Senate advances language to direct the  New  York
    State  Council  on  the  Arts  to  develop criteria and processes to
    designate arts and cultural districts (S.253).
 
Criminal Justice Services, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $90.4 million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $466.1
    million as follows:
      o Restores  $2.6  million  for  the  Westchester  County  Policing
        Program.
      o Adds:
          -$47 million to support Criminal Defender services.
          -$40 million to support Discovery Reform Criminal Defenders.
          -$20 million to support Operation SNUG.
          -$20 million to support Pretrial Services.
          -$14 million to support  funding  related  to  enforcement  of
            Extreme Risk Protection Orders.
          -$10  million  to  support  Legislative  grants  for community
            safety and restorative justice grant programs that include:
              * Support gun violence prevention programs, gang and crime
                reduction strategies managed by local  governments,  and
                community-based not-for-profit service providers.
              * Support   survivors   of  sexual  assault  and  domestic
                violence.
              * Support criminal and civil legal services,  alternatives
                to  incarceration,  community  supervision  and re-entry
                initiatives.
          -$2.2 million to support Prisoner Legal Services of New York.
          -$2  million  to  support  S.4511-A   Ramos,   which   expands
            eligibility  for,  and  grants available under, the District
            Attorney  and   Indigent   Legal   Service   Attorney   Loan
            Forgiveness Program.
          -$1 million to support implementation of Clean Slate Act.
      o Modifies  appropriation  language  to  include  New York City in
        Discovery Implementation and Pretrial Funding.
      o Modifies the  Executive  recommendation  related  to  the  Legal
        Services  Assistance  Fund  (LSAF) appropriation. Alternatively,
        the Senate requests that the LSAF program be allocated as it has
        been in previous years.
 
          -Restores $1.4 million for Civil or Criminal  Legal  Services,
            including  legal services for survivors of Domestic Violence
            or Veterans; and Indigent Parolee Legislative grants.
      o Modifies  the  Executive  recommendations related to the Federal
        Edward  Byrne  Justice  Assistance  Grant  (JAG)  appropriation.
        Alternatively, the Senate requests that the Byrne JAG program be
        allocated as it has been in previous years.
          -Adds  $1  million for violence, crime and drug prevention and
            alternatives to incarceration Legislative grants.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $103
    million   by   modifying  appropriation  language  of  the  Securing
    Communities Against Hate Crimes Grant to make  funds  available  for
    LGBTQ bars.
  * $50  million  for New York City District Attorneys to cover the cost
    of discovery reform implementation.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART A -- The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  extend
    various  provisions of law related to public protection programs and
    services in order to prevent any  lapses,  but  asserts  that  these
    provisions  are  better  addressed outside of the budget process and
    plans to revisit these provisions at a later date.
  * PART B -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    amend New York State's bail laws.
  * PART  F  --  The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to amend the
    Concealed Carry Improvement Act to amend provisions related  to  the
    Adirondack  and  Catskill  Parks,  remove  changes  to penalties for
    unlawful purchase of body armor, ensure safe operations  of  riflery
    programs  at  summer  camps,  and  ensure  the continued practice of
    demonstrations using historical weapons.
  * NEW PART SS -- The Senate advances  language  to  allow  Westchester
    County  to  set  its  own fees for pistol permits and other licenses
    related to  the  manufacture,  sale,  and  possession  of  firearms,
    rifles, and shotguns (S.4879).
  * NEW  PART  UU -- The Senate advances language to allow for automatic
    sealing for certain criminal records (S.211).
  * NEW PART YY -- The Senate advances language  to  expand  eligibility
    for,  and grants available under, the District Attorney and Indigent
    Legal Services Attorney Loan Forgiveness Program (S.4511-A).
 
Deferred Compensation Board
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $953,000,  an  increase  of  $33,000 or 3.6 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Dormitory Authority of the State of New York
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4008-B)
  * PART Z -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    increase  the  Dormitory Authority's bond cap under the Medical Care
    Facilities Finance Agency Act.
  * PART AA -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal  to  authorize
    recipients   of   loans   or   grants  awarded  under  the  Downtown
    Revitalization Initiative (DRI) program and  the  NY  Forward  Grant
 
    program  to  use  the  Dormitory  Authority's planning, procurement,
    financing, and design build services by removing  local  development
    corporations   and   industrial   development   agencies   from  the
    legislation.
  * PART  BB -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend the
    Dormitory Authority's MWBE mentoring program  to  include  reporting
    language.
  * PART  LL -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend the
    Dormitory  Authority's  authorization  to   undertake   design   and
    construction   projects   for   the   Department   of  Environmental
    Conservation  and  Office  of   Parks,   Recreation   and   Historic
    Preservation by reducing it from five years to two years.
 
Economic Development, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive recommendation of $35 million, a
    decrease of $4.4 million or 11.1 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels, as
    follows:
      o Adds:
          -$250,000 for expanding the MWBE program data  collection  and
            reporting requirements.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive recommendation of $67.2 million,
    an increase of $3.6 million or 5.6 percent from SFY  2022-23  levels
    as follows:
      o Adds:
          -$5.5  million  in  additional  support  for  the  Centers  of
            Excellence (COEs), providing $1.25 million to  each  center,
            for a total of $17.5 million.
          -$5.2  million  in  additional  support  for  the  Centers for
            Advanced Technology (CATs), providing $1.25 million to  each
            center, for a total of $18.8 million.
          -$3  million  in  additional  support  for the High Technology
            Matching Grants, for a total of $15 million.
      o Restores $1  million  in  additional  support  for  the  Tourism
        Promotion Matching Grant program, for a total of $3.5 million.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4008-B)
  * NEW  PART  III  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  require the
    Department of Economic Development in conjunction with Empire  State
    Development  Corporation  and  other  agencies to conduct a study of
    public and private  museums  and  their  funding  systems  statewide
    (S.1124).
 
Education Department, New York State
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive recommendation of $652.5 million
    as follows:
      o Modifies language attached to the $2.5 million appropriation for
        a special education tuition methodology study to remove barriers
        to its successful implementation.
      o Omits language allowing for the transfer of oversight within the
        Office of the Professions to the Department of Health.
      o Adds:
          -$16 million for new hires.
 
          -$1 million for Foundation Aid Study.
          -$965,000 for a New York City School Governance Study.
          -$500,000 for a Universal Pre-Kindergarten Aid Study.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $43.1 billion as
    follows:
      o Intentionally  omits  language that requires duplicative funding
        reporting.
      o Intentionally omits language that prorates mandated services aid
        and comprehensive tuition policy payments.
      o Intentionally omits:
          -$10 million for new  High  School-College-Workforce  Pipeline
            Program.
          -$750,000  for  expansion  of  the Expanded Mathematics Access
            Program.
      o Restores:
          -$21.4 million for teacher resource centers.
          -$12 million for Yonkers School District.
          -$4 million for tax certiorari assistance.
          -$1.9 million for nonpublic school aid.
          -$1.5 million for Adult Literacy Education.
          -$1.5  million  carve-out   for   consortium   for   workforce
            education.
          -$1.25 million for NYSUT Many Threads, One Fabric.
          -$1 million for nonpublic school vaccination record-keeping.
          -$903,000 for NY School for the Deaf.
          -$903,000 for Henry Viscardi School for the Deaf.
          -$750,000 for the Dental Grant Program.
          -$500,000 for Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf.
          -$500,000 for Center for Autism at SUNY Albany.
          -$500,000 for Long Island Pre-K Initiative.
          -$475,000 for Executive Leadership Institute.
          -$475,000 for Magellan Foundation.
          -$465,000 for Early College High School program.
          -$450,000 for United Community Schools.
          -$375,000 for Schomburg Library.
          -$365,000 for Mind Builders Creative Arts Center.
          -$350,000 for Latino U College Access (LUCA).
          -$180,000 for Garrison Union Free School District.
          -$175,000 for Hempstead District Monitor.
          -$175,000 for Wyandanch District Monitor.
          -$175,000 for Rochester District Monitor.
          -$112,500 for Langston Hughes Library.
      o Provides an additional:
          -$280 million for universal school meals.
          -$150 million reflecting the February database update.
          -$125 million to increase the minimum reimbursement for UPK.
          -$105 million for community school funding formula.
          -$44  million  for  expanding  special services aid for CTE to
            ninth grade.
          -$36 million for the prior-year aid queue.
          -$35 million for BOCES CTE salary increase.
          -$20 million for School Transportation Safety Zones  in  large
            cities.
          -$11.7 million for Mount Vernon School District.
          -$10 million for 4201 teacher salaries.
          -$10 million for Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc.
 
          -$9 million for Senate initiatives.
          -$7 million for library operating aid.
          -$5.8 million for 4201 school general assistance.
          -$5 million for Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP).
          -$5 million for arts instruction for non-public schools.
          -$3.5 million for Bundy Aid.
          -$3 million for Students with Disabilities.
          -$2.6 million for Liberty Partnership Program (LPP).
          -$2.2 million for Science Technology Entry Program (STEP).
          -$1.7 million for the College Science Technology Entry Program
            (CSTEP).
          -$856,000 for the Foster Youth Initiative Program.
          -$500,000 for Recovery High Schools.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $99.3 million as
    follows:
      o Adds:
          -$25 million for library capital.
          -$4.5  million  for  health and safety projects at special act
            schools.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4006-B)
  * PART A -- The Senate modifies  the  Executive  proposal  related  to
    school aid to:
      o Accept  the  Contracts for Excellence extender for the 2023-2024
        school year;
      o Intentionally  omit  the  high  impact  tutoring  set  aside  of
        Foundation Aid;
      o Intentionally  omit  the proposal to remove the regional charter
        school cap and the proposal  to  authorize  the  re-issuance  of
        surrendered, revoked, or terminated charters;
      o Modify  the  prospective  universal  prekindergarten  enrollment
        reporting proposal to require school districts that are eligible
        for  universal  prekindergarten  aid,  but  that  have  not  yet
        utilized  such  aid  to  provide  information on the barriers in
        utilizing funding  and  requiring  a  three-year  implementation
        plan;
      o Modify  universal  prekindergarten per pupil aid to increase aid
        for early adopters of universal prekindergarten programs;
      o Affirm  building  aid  eligibility  to  school   districts   for
        universal  prekindergarten classrooms and require SED to release
        universal prekindergarten building aid guidance  to  all  school
        districts;
      o Intentionally  omit  the  zero-emission  bus  progress reporting
        requirement;
      o Modify to restore  the  allocation  for  Consortium  for  Worker
        Education reimbursement for the 2023-24 school year;
      o Intentionally omit the school level funding plan extender;
      o Accept the proposal to extend the Rochester City School District
        monitor from 2023 to 2025;
      o Modify   the   proposal   to  study  the  tuition  rate  setting
        methodology to remove the cost neutral language, to  ensure  the
        fiscal  stability  of these programs, and to provide predictable
        annual funding levels; and
      o Intentionally  omit  the  proposal  to  limit  nonpublic  school
        services aid.
  * NEW PART A-1 -- The Senate advances language to:
 
      o Establish  the  Universal  School  Meals  Program to require all
        schools that  participate  in  the  National  School  Lunch  and
        Breakfast Program to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the
        student (amended version of S.1678);
      o Expand  the  eligibility  of  the  Farm  to School Reimbursement
        program (amended version of S.423);
      o Expand capital outlay authority to school districts (S.2990);
      o Establish multi-year cost allowances  for  the  Binghamton  City
        School District (S.2672);
      o Allow  Special  Act  School  Districts,  853  schools,  and 4410
        schools to retain the 11% cost of  living  increase  before  the
        reconciliation process occurs (S.9132 of 2022);
      o Require  interim  rates  to include the annual growth amount for
        such rates approved in the  current  school  year  and  annually
        thereafter  for  Special  Act School Districts, 853 schools, and
        4410 schools (amended version of S.9134 of 2022);
      o Increase tuition rates for all Special Act School Districts, 853
        schools, and  4410  schools  commensurate  with  the  state  aid
        increases (amended version of S.6516-A of 2022);
      o Authorize 4201 schools to establish a fiscal reserve fund;
      o Increase the aidable salaries for BOCES staff;
      o Extend  reimbursement  for ninth graders in Special Services Aid
        for non-component school districts;
      o Expand community school grants and the distribution of  funding;
        and
      o Establish  an Arts and Music Grant Program for nonpublic schools
        to hire arts and music teachers.
  * PART D -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  remove  the
    maximum award cap for the Liberty Partnerships Program.
  * PART  E -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to allow public
    accounting firms to have minority ownership by non-certified  public
    accountants.
  * NEW PART HH -- The Senate advances language to automatically approve
    the  registration of new programs at colleges after 45 days, without
    SED approval, at SUNY, CUNY and independent colleges  under  certain
    conditions (S.3412).
  * NEW  PART  NN  -- The Senate advances language to allow some nursing
    clinical education to be  completed  through  simulation  under  SED
    approval (S.447-C).
 
Elections, State Board of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $38.8 million, an increase of $18.4 million or 90.1 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $29  million,  an  increase of $15 million or 107.1 percent from SFY
    2022-23  levels  with  modifications  to  provide  funding  for  the
    following:
      o $15  million  for local boards of elections to increase salaries
        and hire new employees.
      o $2 million for the Elections Database and Institute.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
 
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation which  provides  no
    capital  appropriations  for the State Board of Elections, by adding
    $15 million for local boards of elections for new  voting  equipment
    and software/technology upgrades.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * NEW  PART  DD  --  The Senate advances language to establish the New
    York Voting and Elections Database and Institute (S.657).
  * NEW  PART  EE  --  The  Senate   advances   language   to   prohibit
    contributions  by  foreign-influenced  business entities and require
    certification  that  contributing  business  entities  are   not   a
    foreign-influenced business entity (S.371).
  * NEW  PART  FF  -- The Senate advances language to exempt poll worker
    pay from state taxes and public benefit cutoff thresholds (S.613).
  * NEW PART GG -- The Senate advances language to increase the  minimum
    pay for poll workers (S.136).
  * NEW  PART  HH -- The Senate advances language to establish mandatory
    staffing levels at local boards of elections (S.644).
  * NEW PART II  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  require  local
    election commissioners to be full-time employees (S.611).
  * NEW PART JJ -- The Senate advances language to establish a mandatory
    training curriculum for poll workers (S.587).
  * NEW PART KK -- The Senate advances language to establish a mandatory
    training  curriculum  for local board of elections commissioners and
    employees (S.617).
 
Empire State Development Corporation
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $271.1  million,
    a  decrease  of $469 million or 63.4 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels
    as follows:
  * Adds:
      o $100 million to establish a Small  Business  Development  Grants
        Program.
      o $7.5  million  to  establish  the New York State Entrepreneurial
        Traning Grants program.
      o $1 million for a study on New York State's  public  and  private
        museum funding systems.
      o $2.4   million  in  additional  support  for  the  Minority  and
        Women-Owned Business Development  and  Lending  Program,  for  a
        total of $3 million.
      o $5.5 million to support legislative initiatives.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies  the Executive recommendation of $1 billion, a
    decrease of $3.5 billion or 77.2 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels  as
    follows:
      o Adds:
          -$5 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum.
          -$2 million for the Center for Dance Training.
      o Restores  $150  million  for  another  round of RESTORE New York
        program.
  * The Senate is supportive of affordable housing at the 5 World  Trade
    Center site.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
 
  * PART  CC -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    rename  and  update  the  SUNY  Tax-free  Areas  to  Revitalize  and
    Transform  UPstate  New  York  program (START-UP NY) to the Extended
    Prosperity and Innovation Campus (EPIC) Initiative.
  * PART  DD  --  The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to create a
    matching grant program for the Small  Business  Innovation  Research
    and  Small  Business Technology Transfer grant programs where one to
    one matching grants would be awarded to  businesses  who  receive  a
    grant  under  the respective federal program by including additional
    program guidelines regarding the number and value of grants  awarded
    and by including a 5-year claw back provision (S.1824).
  * PART  FF -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    increase the maximum loan amount under the  Linked  Deposit  Program
    from $2 million to $6 million.
  * PART  GG -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend the
    general loan powers of the Urban Development  Corporation  (UDC)  to
    make  loans in connection with a broad range of economic development
    programs by reducing it from five years to one year.
  * PART HH -- The Senate  modifies  the  Executive  proposal  to  allow
    Minority  and Women-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) State and local
    certification  reciprocity  by  an  administrative  process  and  to
    increase  the  State  and  New  York  City MWBE discretionary buying
    thresholds. Under the Executive proposal, certification  reciprocity
    is  facilitated administratively by MOU agreements between the State
    and local MWBE programs. The Senate modifies the Executive  proposal
    by  increasing  the  State's  MWBE discretionary buying threshold to
    $750,000  and  increases  the  New  York  City  MWBE   discretionary
    threshold  to  $1.5  million.  The  Senate  also  advances  language
    modifying this proposal by adding a capital access program to assist
    MWBEs in highly-distressed areas (S.1690).
  * PART JJ -- The Senate modifies  the  Executive  proposal  to  extend
    UDC's   authorization   to  administer  the  Empire  State  Economic
    Development Fund by reducing the extension from five  years  to  one
    year.
  * NEW  PART NNN -- The Senate advances language to create the "NY Hemp
    Project" within the Excelsior Jobs Program to attract and  establish
    a hemp manufacturing industry to the State.
  * NEW  PART  QQQ  --  The  Senate  advances  language to direct UDC to
    provide  funding  for  municipalities  to  award  grants  to  create
    entrepreneurial training programs (S.2005).
  * NEW  PART  WWW  --  The  Senate  advances  legislation expanding and
    enhancing the annual and periodic Minority and Women-owned  Business
    Enterprise  (MWBE)  reporting requirements; expanding the powers and
    duties  of  the  Director  of  the  MWBE  Division;   developing   a
    clearinghouse  of  information  on programs and services provided by
    contracting   entities;   expanding   MWBE   program   benefits   to
    state-assisted  project  contracts;  and introducing a new violation
    and enforcement component to the MWBE program (S.2006).
 
Employee Relations, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $12  million,  an  increase  of  $263,000  or  2.3  percent from SFY
    2022-23.
 
Energy Research and Development Authority
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive recommendation of $225.8 million
    by shifting the funding for the EmPower Plus program  to  be  funded
    within NYSERDA revenues.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART  WW  --  The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to prohibit
    installation of fossil fuel equipment and building  systems  in  new
    construction  and  phasing  out  the sale and installation of fossil
    fuel space and water heating  equipment  in  existing  buildings  by
    substituting  its  own language that a municipality may only issue a
    permit  for  new  construction  under  seven  stories  that  is   an
    all-electric  building  by 2025, and may only issue a permit for new
    construction seven stories or more that is an all-electric  building
    by  2028.  The  Senate  language  also  directs  the  New York Power
    Authority to establish a program to fully  decarbonize  and  achieve
    zero  on-site  emissions  for State-owned campuses and facilities by
    2040, with immediate funding for  decarbonization  projects  at  the
    highest-emitting   campuses   and   facilities,   subject  to  labor
    protections and standards.
  * PART ZZ -- The Senate accepts the  Executive  proposal  to  continue
    authorizing  NYSERDA  to  use  an  assessment  on  gas  and electric
    corporations to finance a portion of its research,  development  and
    demonstration,  policy and planning, and Fuel NY program, as well as
    climate change-related expenses of the Department  of  Environmental
    Conservation and the Department of Agriculture and Markets's Fuel NY
    program.
  * PART AAA -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to direct the
    Department  of Environmental Conservation and NYSERDA to establish a
    cap-and-invest program to implement emissions reduction requirements
    under the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act by  adding
    specific  programmatic  details regarding issuance and allocation of
    allowances, labor standards and protections,  prevention  of  market
    manipulation, and protections for disadvantaged communities, as well
    as by setting up the Climate and Community Protection Fund to ensure
    all benefits and rebates from the program are equitably distributed.
 
Environmental Conservation, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive recommendation of $560.2 million
    and adds $1 million for water resources for the protection of  class
    C streams.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies  the Executive recommendation of $1.9 million,
    and provides additional funding as follows:
      o $100,000 for the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, for a total of
        $400,000.
      o $55,000 for Interstate Environmental Commissions, for a total of
        $97,000.
      o The Senate supports the Department providing funding for the  US
        Army Corps of Engineers Mamaroneck Sheldrake Project.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $1.9 billion, as
    follows:
 
      o Increases the Environmental Protection Fund to $500 million, and
        rejects the Executive's proposal to fund staffing costs from the
        Fund. Line increases include:
          -Public  access  and  stewardship  projects  increased  to $70
            million.
          -Land acquisition increased to $47.6 million.
          -Climate resilient farms increased to $30 million.
          -Parks projects, including municipal parks, increased  to  $30
            million.
          -Farmland protection increased to $25 million.
          -Zoos, Botanical Gardens, and Aquaria (ZBGA) funding increased
            to $25 million.
          -Ocean and Great Lakes projects increased to $25 million.
          -Water quality improvement projects increased to $25 million.
          -Invasive species projects increased to $22 million.
          -Municipal recycling projects increased to $20 million.
          -Soil  and  water  conservation  districts  increased to $18.5
            million.
          -Climate smart communities increased to $18 million.
          -Waterfront revitalization projects increased to $18 million.
          -Environmental justice projects increased to $15 million.
          -Climate resiliency plans increased to $10 million.
          -Long Island South Shore Estuary increased to $5 million.
          -Finger Lake - Lake Ontario Watershed increased to $3 million.
          -The Senate also carves out priority projects, including:
              * $15.3 million for a new grant program to promote  forest
                and  woodland  conservation,  climate smart practices on
                farmland, and farmland preservation.
              * $10   million   for   Adirondack   and   Catskill   park
                stewardship.
              * $5.5  million  for  Adirondack  lake  monitoring  survey
                (SCALE).
              * $5  million  for  Land   Trust   Alliance   Conservation
                Easements.
              * $3  million  for  the  Onondaga County Resource Recovery
                Agency to reduce solid waste.
              * $1 million for SUNY ESF's Forestry Institute.
              * $600,000 for the Camp Santononi Historic Area.
              * $500,000 for the revitalization of the Great South Bay.
              * $500,000 for Niagara River Greenway Commission.
              * $250,000 for the Town of Amherst splash pad.
              * $225,000 for WNY Land Conservancy Riverline.
              * $200,000 for Historic Huguenot Society's restoration  of
                the Bevier-Elting House.
              * $100,000 for the High Peaks Information Center.
              * $100,000  for  the  Catskill Center for Conservation and
                Development.
              * $100,000 for Catskill Mountainkeeper.
              * $25,000 for the restoration of Lake Ossi.
      o The  Senate  also  adds  $100  million  for  the   Clean   Water
        Infrastructure Act, and carves out:
          -$100   million  for  the  Safe  Water  Infrastructure  Action
            Program.
          -$50 million for septic replacement.
          -$50 million for lead service line replacement.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
 
  * PART PP -- The Senate modifies the Executive  proposal  to  enact  a
    producer  responsibility program for packaging and paper products by
    expanding the  proposal  to  include  single-use  plastic  products,
    adding  an  office of recycling inspector general, prohibiting toxic
    contaminants   in   such   products,  adding  environmental  justice
    protections,  and  increasing  source  reduction  requirements   and
    enforcement (S.4246).
  * PART  QQ  --  The  Senate  modifies  the Executive proposal to allow
    municipalities to receive aid under  the  Environmental  Restoration
    Program  for  investigating  and remediating sites contaminated with
    emerging contaminants by ensuring that the  definition  of  emerging
    contaminants is not inadvertently exclusionary and to retain limited
    indemnification for municipalities.
  * PART  RR -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    make the pilot deer hunting program for mentored youth permanent.
  * PART SS -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to  remove  the
    sunset provision for pesticide registration fees.
  * PART  TT  --  The  Senate  modifies  the Executive proposal to grant
    Suffolk County authorization to establish a  county-wide  wastewater
    management  district  by  authorizing  Suffolk  County to fund water
    quality projects through sales and use-related revenues if  approved
    by voters pursuant to a county referendum.
  * PART  UU  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to amend the
    Local Finance Law to expand funding eligibility for  replacement  of
    lead  service  lines,  including  portions  of lead service lines on
    private property.
  * NEW PART EEE -- The  Senate  advances  language  to  require  annual
    reporting on State climate expenditures (S.288).
  * NEW PART FFF -- The Senate advances language to fund replacement and
    rehabilitation  of  local  drinking water, storm water, and sanitary
    sewer systems which are not under the maintenance and/or operational
    jurisdiction of a private entity or New York City, and to distribute
    such funding based on a variety  of  factors  including  length  and
    width of pipes, infrastructure age, the nature of other water system
    assets,  and  socioeconomic factors in order to achieve an equitable
    distribution of aid (S.4350).
  * NEW  PART  HHH  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  expand  the
    Returnable  Container  Act  by  increasing the deposit on returnable
    beverage containers to ten cents, requiring deposits  on  additional
    types of beverage containers, including containers for wine, liquor,
    cider,  non-carbonated  soft  drinks, certain juices, coffee and tea
    beverages, and carbonated fruit beverages, increasing  the  handling
    fee  for  returnable containers to six cents, creating post-consumer
    content   requirements   for   returnable   containers,   increasing
    flexibility  for retailers required to accept returnable containers,
    and providing additional protections  for  consumers  and  retailers
    (S.237).
  * NEW  PART JJJ -- The Senate advances language to establish a climate
    change cost recovery program to require fossil fuel  companies  that
    have  contributed  significantly to the buildup of greenhouse gasses
    in the atmosphere to compensate the State based on  such  companies'
    greenhouse  gas  contributions,  and directs the proceeds to be used
    for climate change-related  expenditures  in  a  manner  similar  to
    S.2129,  but  with  proceeds  directed  to the Climate and Community
    Protection Fund.
  * NEW PART KKK -- The Senate advances language to  provide  additional
    protections for class C streams, in a manner similar to S.1725.
 
Executive Chamber
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of $23.3
    million for the Executive Chamber, an increase of $5.45 million,  or
    30.5 percent, from SFY 2022-23.
 
Financial Control Board
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $3.5
    million, unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Financial Services, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $447.2  million,  an  increase of $50.2 million or 12.6 percent from
    SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of  $74.2
    million,  a decrease of $10 million or 11.9 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels, to provide funding for the following restorations:
      o $11 million for the Commuter Van Stabilization Program.
      o $250,000 for the Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4008-B)
  * PART S -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    authorize   the  Department  of  Financial  Services  to  promulgate
    regulations relating  to  the  payment  of  debit  and  credit  card
    transactions.
  * PART  U  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to extend the
    Entertainment  Subsidy  Assistance  Demonstration  Program  for   an
    additional year.
  * PART  W  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    allow automobile insurance companies  to  opt  out  of  the  vehicle
    inspection requirement.
  * NEW  PART  GGG  --  The  Senate  advances  language  establishing  a
    commission to conduct a feasibility study on formation  and  control
    of a State public bank (S.1755).
 
Gaming Commission
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $108.8
    million, an increase of $1.0 million or 0.9 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $237.0
    million,  a  decrease  of  $153.0  million  or 39.2 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4009-B)
  * PART X -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to authorize  a
    Belmont  Racetrack  redevelopment loan by adding provisions ensuring
    that  the  commitments  for  renovations  are   upheld,   clarifying
 
    Franchise  Oversight  Board  and Division of Budget oversight of the
    agreement, providing  for  labor  protections  (including  MWBE  and
    service-disabled  veteran  protections),  and  placing requirements,
    including  an  affordable  housing  component,  on  the  transfer of
    Aqueduct Racetrack land once the franchise  corporation's  lease  on
    the property reverts back to the State.
  * PART  Y  --  The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to eliminate
    Quick Draw restrictions by accepting the  portion  of  the  proposal
    that  would  eliminate  the  minimum 2,500 square foot threshold for
    facilities offering Quick Draw but omitting the  Executive  proposal
    to  permit  those  under  21  years  of  age  to  play Quick Draw in
    establishments offering alcohol.
  * PART Z -- The Senate intentionally omits the proposal to provide for
    closure of the Catskill  Off-Track  Betting  Corporation  (OTB)  and
    supports permitting Catskill OTB to access capital acquisition funds
    to  support  payment of salaries and benefits of employees and other
    expenses of the OTB at  an  appropriate  level  pending  receipt  of
    additional fiscal information from the OTB.
  * PART  AA  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to authorize
    use of  capital  funds  by  Capital  Off-Track  Betting  Corporation
    (Capital OTB) for one year and provides similar authorization to the
    Catskill OTB.
  * PART  BB  --  The  Senate  accepts  the Executive proposal to extend
    pari-mutuel tax rates and simulcast provisions for one year.
  * NEW PART EE -- The Senate advances language  to  prohibit  off-track
    betting  (OTB)  corporation  employees from providing items of value
    exceeding $15 to certain associates of the corporation (S.5549).
  * NEW PART FF -- The Senate advances language  to  prohibit  off-track
    betting  (OTB)  corporation  vehicles  from  being used as take-home
    vehicles (S.5550).
  * NEW PART GG -- The Senate advances language to change the membership
    of the board of directors of the Western Regional Off-Track  Betting
    (OTB) Corporation (S.5552).
 
General Services, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $1.08 billion, an increase of $30.6 million or 2.9 percent from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $259.2 million, a decrease of $184.6 million or  41.6  percent  from
    SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART  Q  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to extend the
    State Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol for an additional
    five years, to now expire April 1, 2028.
  * PART R -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to  allow  State
    agencies  to  require  electronic  bid  submissions  with  technical
    clarifications.
  * NEW  PART  OO  --  The  Senate  advances  language  providing  price
    escalation  relief  to State contractors and subcontractors affected
    by spikes in material costs during the early days of COVID-19. Under
    the proposal, public contractors would  be  empowered  to  apply  to
    their  contracting  State  entity  for  up  to 5 percent retroactive
 
    relief, if the contract in question accepted bids up to  April  2020
    and the material cost increases occurred after March 2020 (S.8844 of
    2022).
 
General State Charges
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $7.1 billion, a decrease of $291.8 million, or 4  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Green Thumb
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $5.3
    million.
 
Greenway Heritage Conservancy of the Hudson River Valley
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $250,000.
 
Health, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $4.5 billion.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies  the  Executives  All  Funds recommendation of
    $217.5 billion as follows:
 
Public Health
      o Restores:
          -$133 million in Tobacco Tax Revenue due  to  modification  of
            the Executive proposal HMH Part O.
          -$66.8 million to continue Managed Long Term Care Quality Pool
            Payments and Managed Long-Term Care Distressed Pool Plan.
          -$30 million for Health Home Program.
          -$18 million for Nourish NY.
          -$3.8 million to support School Based Health Centers.
          -$1 million to support Family Planning Services.
          -$1 million to support Nurse-Family Partnership.
          -$666,666   to   support   the   Albert  Einstein  College  of
            Medicine-Firefighter.
          pre-leukemia program.
          -$475,000  to  support  the  LGBT  Health  and  Human  Service
            Network.
      o Adds:
          -$1.7  billion  to support modifications relating to Essential
            Plan expansions.
          -$277.5  million  to  support  the   Assisted   Daily   Living
            eligibility repealer.
          -$75  million to the New York State Tobacco Control Program to
            support cessation  and  education  programs  in  communities
            targeted by the promotion of flavored tobacco products.
          -$50 million for Licensed Home Care Service Agencies grants.
 
          -$30  million  for  Legislative  Grants, including $12 million
            restoration to support prior year grants.
          -$25  million  for  Certified Home Health Agencies and Hospice
            Service providers.
          -$23 million to  support  an  11  percent  Reimbursement  Rate
            Increase for Early Intervention programs.
          -$22  million  for  Hunger prevention and Nutrition Assistance
            Program.
          -$10.4 million for the Occupational Health Clinic Network.
          -$10 million for the Medical Debt Pilot Program.
          -$8.7 million to support costs associated  with  intentionally
            omitting the Executive proposal in Part D of S.4007-B.
          -$8 million to support expansion of CHP program.
          -$7 million to support changes relating to the Cancer Services
            Program.
          -$1  million  to  establish  a task force on missing women and
            girls who are Black, indigenous, and people of color.
          -$1 million for a Director  of  Hospice  and  Palliative  Care
            Access and Quality.
          -$1.1 million to support Area Health Education Centers.
          -$1   million   to   support   the   Transgender   and  Gender
            Non-Conforming Wellness and Equity Fund program.
          -$1 million to support the Community Service  Society  of  New
            York for Community Health Advocates Consortium.
          -$1 million to support Native American Health Clinics.
 
Medicaid
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $103
    billion as follows:
      o Adds:
          -$1 billion in State funding for  Financially  Distressed  and
            Safety-Net Hospitals.
          -$624 million for State-share Medicaid local takeover growth.
          -$412.5  million  to  support  ten  percent Reimbursement Rate
            Increase related to the modifications HMH Part E.
          -$187 million to support safe staffing for Nursing Home.
          -$157.5 million to support a ten  percent  Reimbursement  Rate
            Increase related to the modification of HMH Part I.
              * The  Department of Health shall find solutions to ensure
                that staffing shortages do not result  in  underutilized
                nursing home beds.
          -$10   million   to   support   Doula   services  and  provide
            reimbursement rates for providers
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $2.5
    billion as follows:
      o Adds  $200 million to support the Statewide Health Care Facility
        Transformation Program.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4007-B)
  * PART A -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to  extend  the
    Medicaid  Global  Cap  through  SFY  2025  by  instead  repealing it
    (S.4861).
  * PART B -- The Senate  modifies  the  Executive  proposal  to  extend
    various  provisions and programs within the Public Health and Mental
    Hygiene Laws by adding a provision making the  carve-out  of  school
    based health centers from Medicaid managed care permanent (S.2339).
 
  * PART  C  -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to reauthorize
    the Health Care Reform Act administration  and  initiatives  through
    2026.
  * PART  D  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    allow the Department of Health to eliminate drugs from the  Medicaid
    list  of  over-the-counter  covered  drugs  and eliminate prescriber
    prevails from Medicaid.
  * PART E -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to increase the
    operating component of hospital inpatient services Medicaid rate  by
    5  percent,  reduce  the  State's share of the Indigent Care Pool to
    target funds to  high-need  facilities,  authorize  rural  emergency
    hospitals,   make   permanent  the  Department's  ability  to  award
    temporary  payments  to  eligible  facilities  in  severe  financial
    distress,  and  expand  the  definition  of an eligible Vital Access
    Provider Assurance Program funding recipient by increasing  hospital
    inpatient  and  outpatient  rates by 10 percent. The Senate strongly
    supports increasing rates to community-based health centers.
  * PART F -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  extend  the
    Physicians  Excess  Medical  Malpractice  Program for a year through
    June 30, 2024.
  * PART H -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to make changes
    to Essential Plan eligibility and delay the  expansion  of  coverage
    for  undocumented people over 64 by accepting the proposed expansion
    for the Essential Plan but  rejecting  the  delay  in  coverage  for
    undocumented   immigrants   over  64,  and  including  coverage  for
    undocumented immigrants regardless of age through the Essential Plan
    (Part of S.2237).
  * PART I -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to  extend  the
    authority for Medicaid Long Term Care (MLTC) plans for an additional
    four  years, extend the moratorium on the processing and approval of
    applications of new partial capitation MLTC plans  until  March  31,
    2027,  create  MLTC  performance  metrics,  allow  the Department of
    Health to start an MLTC procurement, repeal the Fiscal  Intermediary
    procurement process, increase the operating component of residential
    healthcare facilities and assisted living program services rate by 5
    percent,  and  eliminate  wage  parity requirements for the Consumer
    Directed Personal Assistance Program and create a State fund to help
    pay health plan  premiums  for  personal  assistants  by  increasing
    residential   healthcare  facilities  and  assisted  living  program
    services rates by 10 percent,  accepting  certain  MLTC  performance
    metrics, accepting the extension of authority for MLTC plans and the
    moratorium of new MLTC plans, and omitting the rest of the proposal.
  * PART  J  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    create  a  pay-and-resolve  mechanism  for  emergency  services  and
    inpatient admissions resulting from emergency services.
  * PART  K  --  The  Senate  modifies  the Executive proposal to expand
    Medicaid eligibility to incarcerated people 30 days prior to release
    and to children and  adults  in  institutes  of  mental  disease  by
    expanding  coverage for incarcerated people to include full Medicaid
    coverage and including a taskforce to study long term solutions  for
    children who may gain and then lose coverage under this proposal.
  * PART  L  --  The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive proposal to create
    guiding principles for site-of-service utilization reviews.
  * PART M -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to  reform  the
    approval  processes  for  health  care  projects and transactions by
    accepting increased construction fees for hospitals, nursing  homes,
    and  diagnostic  and treatment centers construction applications and
 
    exempting core public health services from home care licensure  when
    provided by a local health department.
  * PART  N  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to expand the
    Medicaid Buy-In Program for working people with disabilities.
  * PART O -- The Senate modifies the Executive  proposal  to  implement
    various  tobacco  control  policies to strengthen the flavored vapor
    products ban, support local enforcement, and  ensure  education  and
    outreach efforts focus on consumers historically targeted by tobacco
    and vapor product advertising.
  * PART  P -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to authorize a
    fifth round  of  grants  for  the  Statewide  Health  Care  Facility
    Transformation  Program  by  providing  $200  million  in additional
    funding, creating  a  $200  million  set-aside  for  community-based
    organizations,   specifically   identifying  cybersecurity  projects
    within the $500 million for technological and telehealth  set-aside,
    adding  language  to  allow  this  funding  to support conversion of
    buildings and  new  construction  in  underserved  communities,  and
    setting  aside  $50  million  for  community-based  organizations to
    engage in these activities.
  * PART Q -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to expand access
    to primary care by allowing more health-based social needs  services
    to be covered by Medicaid.
  * PART  R  --  The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive proposal to expand
    coverage of Medicaid services to  include  services  provided  by  a
    nutritionist    or   certified   dietitian   and   chronic   disease
    self-management training services for people living with arthritis.
  * PART S -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal  to  revitalize
    the  EMS system by intentionally omitting the repeal and replacement
    of the existing certificate of need  process  for  new  or  modified
    operating,  intentionally  omitting  the  establishment  of  new and
    changes to existing regulatory  bodies,  accepting  investments  and
    proposals  related to workforce training, recruitment and retention,
    accepting  the  new  definition  for  "emergency  medical  service,"
    accepting  proposals  for  system-sustainability  plans, authorizing
    mobile integrated healthcare,  and  advancing  language  to  provide
    payments   to   municipalities   whose   EMS   are  other  municipal
    departments, volunteer or  non-profit  entities  (Part  of  S.1852),
    advancing  provisions  to  label  EMS as an "essential" and required
    service and allowing for volunteer EMS to be eligible  for  benefits
    under  State Pension system and NYSHIP systems (Part of S.4020), and
    providing  for  a  uniform  ambulance  assessment  fee  on   certain
    ambulance revenue to cover increased Medicaid rates for EMS services
    (S.5122).
  * PART  T -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to establish a
    lead paint inspection registry for rental properties located outside
    New York City by changing the administrator of the program from  the
    Department  of  Health  to  the  Division  of  Housing and Community
    Renewal.
  * PART U -- The Senate modifies the  Executive  proposal  to  prohibit
    electronic  communication  service  entities  from  sharing abortion
    procedure  information  with  out-of-state   law   enforcement   and
    "geofencing"  around  healthcare facilities by advancing language to
    establish privacy standards for health  products  and  services  and
    permissible  data  brokering,  and  establishing  a private right of
    action for violations (S.158).
  * PART V -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    allow   pharmacists  to  prescribe  and  dispense  self-administered
 
    hormonal contraceptives and emergency contraception. The Senate  has
    passed S.1043 to provide this access.
  * PART  W  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    expand  the  scope  of  practice  for  medical  providers  and   the
    introduction of the Interstate Licensure Compact and Nurse Licensure
    Compact.
  * PART  X  --  The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive proposal to create
    minimum standards for temporary healthcare staffing agencies.
  * PART Y -- The Senate modifies  the  Executive  proposal  to  require
    affidavits  for  medical  debt  lawsuits,  require  registration and
    reporting of certain  companies  in  the  prescription  drug  supply
    chain,  require  drug  manufacturers  to  notify  the  Department of
    Financial Services of drug price increases,  report  pay  for  delay
    agreements,  create  a  uniform  financial assistance form to access
    Indigent Care Pool and Indigent Care Adjustment funding, and  create
    a  guaranty fund by advancing language that creates a presumption of
    anticompetitiveness against pay for delay agreements  (S.4513),  and
    accepting the rest of the proposal.
  * PART  AA  -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to mandate an
    additional  test  for  syphilis  in  pregnant  patients  and  expand
    circumstances  where  an individual must be screened, diagnosed, and
    treated for Hepatitis C (HepC or HCV).
  * PART BB -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal  to
    add  substances  to  the  State  Schedule I and II lists, expand the
    definition of "imitation controlled substance,"  and  establish  new
    criminal  penalties  related  to  the  possession  and  sale  of  an
    imitation controlled substance.
  * PART CC -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal  to
    transfer  oversight  of  healthcare  workers from the New York State
    Education Department to the Department of Health.
  * NEW PART KK --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  remove  certain
    restrictions  on  eligibility  for  personal  and home care services
    under Medicaid (S.328).
  * NEW PART LL -- The Senate advances  language  to  establish  a  task
    force  on  missing  women  and  girls who are Black, indigenous, and
    people of color (S.4266).
  * NEW PART OO -- The Senate advances language to clarify the look-back
    period for Medicaid eligibility for home care services (S.2125).
  * NEW PART PP -- The Senate advances language  to  establish  a  grant
    program  for medical interns or residents to receive training in the
    performance of an abortion and related reproductive health  services
    and establishes a fund for the grant program to draw from (S.3060).
  * NEW  PART  QQ -- The Senate advances language to establish a Women's
    Health Program in state and local correctional facilities (S.4264).
  * NEW PART RR -- The Senate advances language to increase the  minimum
    wage  for  home  care  workers by an additional two dollars over two
    years subject to federal participation, require  the  Department  of
    Health  (DOH)  to  make state-directed payments to providers for the
    purposes of supporting wage increases, and allow the Comptroller  to
    review  contracts  between  managed  care organizations and licensed
    home care services agencies, fiscal intermediaries, or any  agencies
    subject to the home care minimum wage increase, to ensure that rates
    being  offered  are  adequate  and  meet  the Department's actuarial
    standards. Should the Comptroller find evidence of inadequate rates,
    it will refer such instances to DOH and the Medicaid  Fraud  Control
    Unit  (OMIG) for enforcement.  DOH and OMIG will have the ability to
    not act on the referral. The reports and responses  will  be  public
 
    information and made available in the Comptroller's website (Part of
    S.3189).
  * NEW  PART SS -- The Senate advances language to cover doula services
    under the Medicaid program and establish a rate for those services.
  * NEW PART TT -- The Senate advances language to conduct  a  study  on
    the  Medicaid durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and
    supply  program,  focused  on  rate  adequacy  and  patient   access
    (S.3131).
  * NEW  PART UU -- The Senate advances language to retroactively enroll
    children in the Child Health Plus program to the first of the  month
    when their application is submitted (S.4885).
  * NEW PART VV -- The Senate advances language to repeal the 340B carve
    out,  require  managed  care  providers  (MCPs) and pharmacy benefit
    managers (PBMs) to use the fee-for-service preferred  drug  list  in
    developing  their  formulary,  require  MCPs  and  PBMs to reimburse
    retail pharmacies and 340B covered entity providers for each drug at
    the  National  Average  Drug  Acquisition  Cost   (NADAC)   or   the
    fee-for-service   reimbursement  rate  plus  a  tiered  volume-based
    dispensing fee, require a dispensing fee set by the Commissioner  to
    be  an  amount of at least $10.18, prohibit MCPs from denying retail
    pharmacies  the  opportunity  to  participate  in   their   network,
    reimburse  contract  pharmacies  under  the 340B program under a fee
    schedule based on fair market principles and not on a percentage  of
    a  claim's total reimbursement or net margin, and prohibit PBMs from
    limiting an individual's choice to  receive  their  medication  from
    their local, non-mail order pharmacy of choice (S.5136).
  * NEW  PART WW -- The Senate advances language to expand the number of
    facilities in the young adults with medical fragility  demonstration
    program.
  * NEW  PART  XX  --  The  Senate  advances  language to exempt managed
    long-term  care  transportation  from  the  brokers  that  will   be
    responsible  for  managing  non-emergency medical transportation for
    Medicaid (S.4788).
  * NEW  PART  YY  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  reject   the
    administrative changes to the Health Home Program.
  * NEW  PART  AAA  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to redefine the
    qualifications for clinical peer reviewers used in external appeals,
    and expands their role to include  utilization  reviews  (S.8113  of
    2022).
  * NEW  PART  BBB  -- The Senate advances language to establish a grant
    program to build reproductive healthcare  provider  capacity  within
    the state, fund uncompensated care, and provide financial support to
    organizations  providing practical support to individuals within and
    traveling to the State (S.348-B).
  * NEW  PART  CCC  --  The  Senate  advances  language  directing   the
    Department  of  Health  to  establish  rates  of  reimbursement  for
    pediatric diagnostic and treatment centers for services provided  on
    or after April 1, 2023, to children with medical fragility.
  * NEW  PART  DDD  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  require the
    Department  of  Health  to  establish  a  Director  of  Hospice  and
    Palliative Care Access and Quality within the Office of Primary Care
    and Health Systems Management (S.4858).
  * NEW  PART FFF -- The Senate advances language to provide funding for
    certified home health agencies  and  hospice  programs  to  increase
    their services in underserved or hard to serve areas of the state.
  * NEW  PART  GGG -- The Senate advances language to codify the quality
    incentive program for managed care providers and provide funding for
    the program (S.3146).
 
Medicaid Inspector General, Office of the
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $57.4 million.
 
Higher Education Facilities Capital Matching Grants Program (HECap)
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of no  new  capital
    funding as follows:
      o Restores  $45  million  for  HECap and provides an additional $5
        million.
      o Adds $30 million for Green HECap.
 
Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC)
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $60.8
    million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $1.1 billion as
    follows:
      o Restores:
          -$2 million for the Nursing Faculty Scholarship
          -$1 million for the Social Worker Loan Forgiveness Program
          -$50,000 for the  New  York  Young  Farmers  Loan  Forgiveness
            Program
      o Adds  $7.5  million  to  increase  the  maximum TAP ceiling from
        $80,000 to $110,000.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4006-B)
  * NEW PART RR -- The Senate advances language to increase the  maximum
    TAP eligibility income cap from $80,000 to $110,000 (S.3474).
 
Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  *   The  Senate concurs with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $138.2 million.
 
Aids to Localities (S. 4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $8.9
    billion by restoring $1.8 million in Legislative grants.
 
Capital Projects (S. 4004-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies  the Executive All Funds recommendation of $93
    million by adding $50 million to support the Volunteer Fire Services
    Capital Fund.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4005-B)
  * PART G -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to  establish  a
    hazard mitigation loan fund.
  * PART  H  --  The  Senate  modifies  the Executive proposal regarding
    volunteer firefighters by  removing  language  providing  localities
    with  the option to provide a nominal fee to volunteer firefighters.
    The Senate accepts the part of the Executive  proposal  that  allows
 
    the  Office  of  Fire  Prevention  and  Control to give a stipend to
    volunteer firefighters for completing certain  firefighter  training
    and advances language to increase the income tax credit to volunteer
    firefighters  from  $200  to  $800  and to allow the claiming of the
    income tax credit and existing property tax exemptions.
 
Homes and Community Renewal
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $181.6
    million, an increase of $46.9  million  or  34.8  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23  levels,  with  modifications  to  provide  funding  for the
    following:
      o $10 million for a Statewide Rent Registry.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $110.8
    million, a decrease of $427.5  million  or  79.4  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23  levels,  with  modifications  to  provide  funding  for the
    following:
      o The Senate provides $250 million for the Housing Access  Voucher
        Program (HAVP).
      o Restores:
          -$50 million for Land Banks and Land Trusts.
          -$35  million  for the Homeowner Protection Program (HOPP) and
            adds an additional $5 million for a total of $40 million.
      o The Senate adds $1 million for the Fair Housing Testing  Program
        for a total of $3 million.
      o The   Senate   restores   $150,000   for   the  Association  for
        Neighborhood and Housing Development, and  adds  $50,000  for  a
        total of $200,000.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $479.7
    million,  a  decrease of $4.8 billion or 91 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels, with modifications to provide funding for the following:
      o Restores:
          - $350  million  for  the  New  York  City  Housing  Authority
            (NYCHA).
          -  $50 million for Public Housing Authorities outside the City
            of New York.
          -$100  million  for  the  Mitchell   Lama   Preservation   and
            Homeownership Program.
          -$7  million  for  the Small Rental Development Initiative and
            adds $13 million for a total of $20 million.
      o Adds $250 million for the  Infrastructure  Support  Fund  for  a
        total of $500 million.
      o The Senate adds $4.6 million for the RESTORE program for a total
        of $6 million.
      o The Senate adds $3 million for the Access to Homes program for a
        total of $4 million.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4006-B)
  * PART  F -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to set housing
    growth targets by removing mandatory requirements and  overrides  of
    local  zoning,  doubling total available incentives for smart growth
    to $500 million in State assistance, supporting the  creation  of  a
    land  use  advisory council to review municipal growth over the next
 
    three  years,  and  awarding  the  $500  million  in  incentives  to
    municipalities  that achieve target goals. The Senate recognizes and
    supports the need for an expanded and  diversified  housing  supply,
    particularly  affordable  housing,  in  order to address the State's
    affordability  crisis  while  recognizing  the  critical   role   of
    community  input  in meeting development needs with community buy-in
    to  different  development  strategies.  The  Senate  will   further
    consider  programs,  policies,  and  incentives  to  facilitate  the
    development of a robust and sustainable housing  supply  across  the
    State in conjunction with partners in State government.
  * PART  G  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    require municipalities in the New York  City  metro  area  to  amend
    their zoning to encourage transit-oriented development.
  * PART  H  --  The  Senate  modifies the Executive proposal to require
    local boards to submit certain information related  to  zoning,  and
    the  construction, rehabilitation and conversion of buildings to the
    Commissioner of the Division  of  Homes  and  Community  Renewal  to
    include  language  that  binds  the  program  in  statute  to  funds
    allocated by the Executive to ensure localities obtain technical and
    financial assistance, and removes mandatory reporting requirements.
  * PART I -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    expand  the  circumstances  under  which  localities  may consider a
    dwelling abandoned.
  * PART J -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal  to  amend  the
    residential  requirements  for  multiple  dwellings  for  commercial
    conversions to combine its regulatory changes  with  the  commercial
    conversion  tax  incentive  recommended  in  Part P of the Executive
    Budget  (S.5080)  and  adds  an  opt-in  commercial  conversion  tax
    incentive  outside  of  New  York  City, as well as addressing labor
    standards.
  * PART K -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    allow  the  City  of New York to establish a program which addresses
    the legalization or the conversion of basement and  cellar  dwelling
    units.
  * PART  L  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    eliminate the residential 12.0 floor area ratio (FAR) requirement in
    New York City.
  * PART M -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    update tax abatement incentives for affordable multiple dwellings in
    New  York  City, and intends to address an updated tax abatement for
    the City of New York outside of the budget process (S.4709).
  * PART N -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    provide  an  opt-in  tax  exemption for new multi-family development
    outside of New York City.
  * PART O -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    provide  homeowners with an opt-in tax exemption for the creation of
    new accessory dwelling units outside of New York City.
  * PART P -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    create  a  tax  incentive program to convert commercial buildings to
    residential dwellings in New York City and combines  the  provisions
    with ELFA Part J of the Executive Budget.
  * PART  Q  --  The  Senate modifies the Executive proposal to increase
    funding for the Rural Preservation Program  from  $5.36  million  to
    $7.75   million  and  increase  the  funding  for  the  Neighborhood
    Preservation Program funding from $12.8 million to  $17.78  million.
    In addition, the Senate provides carve outs of $125,000 each for the
    Neighborhood and Rural Preservation Coalitions.
 
  * PART  R  --The  Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    extend the 421-a completion deadline, with an intention  to  address
    projects on an individual basis outside of the budget process.
  * NEW  PART  GG  --  The  Senate advances a new proposal to create the
    Housing Access Voucher Program to provide rental assistance  in  the
    form  of vouchers to individuals who are homeless or facing imminent
    risk of becoming homeless (S.568-A).
  * NEW PART JJ -- The Senate advances a new proposal to require the New
    York City Housing Authority to compensate residents for  disruptions
    in vital services such as utilities (S.546).
  * NEW  PART  OO -- The Senate advances a new proposal establishing the
    Special Commission on Affordable Housing (S.9462 of 2022).
  * The Senate supports advancing tenant protections that align with the
    core principles of Good Cause Eviction.
  * The  Senate  supports  the  concepts  and  core  principles  of  the
    short-term  rentals bill and intends to address the issue outside of
    the budget process.
 
Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $245,000.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $250,000.
 
Human Rights, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $28.9
    million,  an  increase  of  $7.8  million  or  37.5 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Indigent Legal Services, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $7.3 million.
 
Aids to Localities (S. 4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $359.3
    million as follows:
      o Adds  $25  million for the Assigned Counsel Program ("18-B"), to
        support the modification of Article VII PPGG Part P.
      o Adds $10 million for the Parental Representation Program.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART P -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal  regarding  the
    Assigned Counsel Program by raising the hourly rate for attorneys to
    $180  for  downstate  counties  and $158 for upstate counties, to be
    phased in over a period of five  years.  The  Senate  also  advances
    language  that will require the State and counties to share the cost
    of the rate increase (S.1777-A).
 
Information Technology Services, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
 
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $863.2 million, an increase of $36.1 million or 4.4 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
      o The  Senate  provides $500,000 for an inventory of technological
        assets.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $130.7  million,  an  increase of $15 million or 13 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4005-B)
  * NEW PART VV -- The Senate advances language  to  require  all  state
    agencies  to perform an inventory of technological assets, including
    all  hardware  and  software,  for  the   purpose   of   identifying
    vulnerabilities and capacity needs.
 
Inspector General, Office of the State
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $9.8 million, an increase of $1.4 million or  16  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Interest on Lawyer Account
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $2.2 million.
 
Aids to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $52 million.
 
Judiciary
 
Legislature and Judiciary (S.4001-A)
  * The  Senate  modifies  the  Office of Court Administration All Funds
    recommendation of $3.4 billion as follows:
      o Adds $19 million to support a two-year pilot program in New York
        City to operate Family Court until midnight.
      o The Senate proposes to modify the Office of Court Administration
        budget to require mandatory reporting  to  the  Legislature  and
        Executive   subject  to  withholdings  of  non-personal  service
        funding for failure to comply.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART U -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    apply a variable, market-based interest rate to court judgments.
  * NEW  PART  RR  --  The Senate advances language to create a two-year
    pilot program in  New  York  City  to  operate  Family  Court  until
    midnight (S.2355).
  * NEW   PART   XX   --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  authorize
    audio-visual recording in judicial proceedings (S.160).
  * NEW  PART  DDD  --  The  Senate  advances   language   to   increase
    transparency  in  the  Unified Court System, including requiring the
    Office of Court Administration to report certain information to  the
    other branches of government.
 
Judicial Conduct, Commission on
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $8.1 million.
 
Judicial Nomination, Commission on
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $30,000.
 
Judicial Screening Committee
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $38,000.
 
Justice Center for Protection of People with Special Needs
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $60.9 million.
 
Aids to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $800,000.
 
Labor, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $1.1  billion, a decrease of $111.3 million or 10.2 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $6.2 billion,  a
    decrease of $4 billion or 39 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels:
      o Restores $19.4 million in funding for Senate priorities.
      o Adds  $4.2  million  for  the  Cornell  Industrial  Labor School
        Climate Jobs Institute.
      o Adds $1.5  million  for  the  Cornell  Industrial  Labor  School
        Cannabis Workforce Initiative.
      o Adds  $2.5  million  for  other  Senate  Legislative Priorities,
        including:
          -$750,000 for the Edward Malloy Apprenticeship Program.
          -$250,000 for a Non-Traditional  Employment  for  Women  Child
            Care pilot program.
          -$250,000  for  the  Workforce  Development  Institute  Hazard
            Abatement Program.
      o Adds  $1  million  for  New  Jewish  Home   for   training   for
        under-privileged youth to become Certified Nurse Assistants, and
        using this model to expand these training services Statewide.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4006-B)
  * PART  S  --  The  Senate  intentionally omits the Executive proposal
    related to minimum wage indexing. The Senate  supports  raising  the
    minimum wage and then indexing the minimum wage to inflation after a
 
    sufficient increase to ensure that New Yorkers earn a living wage to
    support their basic needs and the needs of their families.
  * PART  T  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    require New York City to establish an Office of Community Hiring and
    Workforce Development.
  * NEW PART AA -- The Senate advances language to  expand  the  Healthy
    Terminals Act to include New York Stewart International Airport as a
    covered  airport  location  for  purposes  of  establishing specific
    standards for prevailing wage rates for airport workers (S.3571).
  * NEW PART BB -- The Senate advances  language  to  extend  paid  sick
    leave to domestic workers (S.1801).
  * The  Senate supports reviewing options to address access to benefits
    for those who are ineligible for traditional unemployment benefits.
  * The Senate supports  exploring  the  use  of  conduit  financing  to
    provide  unemployment  insurance  premium  relief to business owners
    across the State.
 
Labor Management Committees
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $37.8 million, an increase of $12.3 million or 48.3 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Law, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $342 million, an increase of $21.8 million compared to  SFY  2022-23
    levels.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $2.75 million, a decrease of $3.75 million compared to  SFY  2022-23
    levels.
 
Lieutenant Governor, Office of the
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive recommendation of $746,000,
    which is no change from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Local Government Assistance
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $2.5  million  for the Financial Restructuring Board, unchanged from
    SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $754.2   million,   unchanged   from   SFY   2022-23   levels,  with
    modifications to provide funding for the following:
      o $210 million in additional funding for  Aid  and  Incentives  to
        Municipalities  (AIM),  distributed  proportionally  across  the
        State to current AIM recipients.
      o $300,000 for the Village of New Paltz for  expenses  related  to
        police and fire services associated with SUNY New Paltz.
 
      o $289,000 for the City of Kingston for Sojourner Truth Park.
      o $33,000 for the Town of Ulster for Sojourner Truth Park.
      o $250,000  for  the  Aid  and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM)
        Redesign Task Force.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4005-B)
  * PART AA -- The Senate accepts the  Executive's  proposal  to  extend
    various  commercial  property  and  sales tax incentives in New York
    City.
  * PART BB -- The Senate intentionally omits the  Executive's  proposal
    to  repeal the County-Wide Shared Services Initiative payment to the
    North Shore Water Authority.
  * NEW PART LL -- The Senate advances language to establish a New  York
    Aid  and  Incentives  for  Municipalities  (AIM) redesign task force
    (S.770). This task force would study the  current  AIM  formula  and
    distribution  levels,  and  explore  reinstating AIM funding for New
    York City.
  * NEW PART AAA -- The Senate advances language to increase  monitoring
    and  oversight  of Orange County Industrial Development Agency (IDA)
    activities  and  decision  making,  including  but  not  limited  to
    contracting and payment in lieu of taxes agreements.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * NEW  PART  ZZZ -- The Senate advances language to repeal the Madison
    Square Garden tax exemption and send all future  revenues  generated
    from   property   taxes   on   such  property  to  the  Metropolitan
    Transportation Authority (MTA).
 
Mental Health, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $2.3
    billion  by  modifying  appropriation  language to include reporting
    requirements to notify the Legislature before residential, community
    and State-operated beds are opened.
 
Aids to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $2.7
    billion as follows:
          -Adds  $130  million  to support an 8.5 percent Cost-of-Living
            Adjustment (COLA).
          -Adds $10 million to establish a Daniel's Law  Pilot  Program.
            The  Pilot  Program  would support new and existing programs
            that respond to the  needs  of  individuals  involved  in  a
            mental health crisis. Funding would be used to establish the
            utilization    of    best    practices,   create   reporting
            requirements, and incentivize local governments  to  improve
            services  related  to  mental  health  crisis  awareness and
            response.
          - Adds $5 million in Legislative grants.
              * $3 million to support restoration of prior year grants.
          -$3  million  to  support  workgroups  to  study   and   issue
            recommendations  on suicide prevention in LGBTQ+, Black, and
            Latina children and youth.
          -Adds $1.06 million to support Comprehensive Care  Center  for
            Eating Disorders.
          -Adds  $300,000  for  the  Veteran's  Mental  Health  Training
            Initiative.
 
          -Reduces $700,000 for intentionally omitting HMH Part GG.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $1.5
    billion as follows:
      o Modifies   appropriation   language   to    include    reporting
        requirements  to  notify  the  Legislature  before  residential,
        community and State-operated beds are opened.
      o Carves out up to $9 million to support beds operated by Fountain
        House Inc.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4007-B)
  * NEW PART ZZ -- The Senate advances language to create workgroups  to
    study  and  issue  recommendations  on suicide prevention in LGBTQ+,
    Black, and Latina children and youth.
  * NEW PART HHH -- The Senate advances language to create  a  workgroup
    to study and issue recommendations on implementing Daniel's Law, and
    create  a  pilot  program  to  support  non-police, trauma-informed,
    community-led responses to mental health, alcohol, and substance use
    crises.
 
Mental Hygiene, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $600
    million as follows:
 
      o Adds $500 million appropriation to support 8.5 percent COLA.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4007-B)
  * PART  DD  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to provide a
    2.5   percent   cost-of-living   adjustment   by   increasing    the
    cost-of-living   adjustment  to  8.5  percent  and  indexing  future
    cost-of-living adjustments to the  consumer  price  index  (Part  of
    S.1291).
  * PART  EE -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal extending the
    managed long-term  care  statute  for  the  Office  of  People  with
    Developmental  Disabilities (OPWDD) by reducing the extension to one
    year.
  * PART FF -- The Senate accepts the  Executive  proposal  to  increase
    flexibility  in  delegating nursing tasks by allowing direct support
    staff in OPWDD community-based programs to perform certain tasks, if
    under  the  instruction  of   the   service   recipient   or   their
    representative, and supervised by a registered professional nurse.
  * PART  GG -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    create  a  "qualified  mental  health  associate"   credential   for
    paraprofessionals  who  provide  services  for  the Office of Mental
    Health.
  * PART HH -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  allow  the
    Office  of  Mental  Health  and the Office of Addiction Services and
    Supports to jointly license certified  community  behavioral  health
    clinics and create an Indigent Care Pool to compensate providers who
    suffer losses due to uncompensated care.
  * PART  II  --  The  Senate  accepts the Executive proposal to require
    commercial insurance coverage of certain behavioral health services,
    exempt certain behavioral health services and substance use disorder
    drugs from preauthorization or utilization review,  require  payment
    parity  for  telehealth mental health services, create penalties for
 
    payment parity violations, and require DFS to promulgate regulations
    related to behavioral health  and  substance  use  disorder  network
    adequacy.
  * PART JJ -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to enhance the
    authority  of  the Commissioner to impose penalties on providers for
    failing to comply with operating certificates or the Mental  Hygiene
    Law  by  including  protections  for  attempts made in good faith to
    comply with applicable operating certificates and the law.
  * NEW  PART  EEE  --  The  Senate  advances  language  to  direct  the
    Commissioner  to  establish  a  maternal  mental health workgroup to
    study and issue recommendations related to maternal  mental  health,
    perinatal, and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (S.2359).
 
People with Developmental Disabilities, Office for
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $2.4 billion.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $4.9
    billion as follows:
      o Adds  $290  million  to  support  an  8.5 percent Cost-of-Living
        Adjustment (COLA).
      o Adds $1 million  to  support  Legislative  Grants,  including  a
        $450,000 restoration to support prior year Legislative Grants.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $119.5 million.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4007-B)
  * NEW PART NN -- The Senate advances language to create an independent
    intellectual  and   developmental   disability   ombudsman   program
    (S.3108).
 
Planning Council, Developmental Disabilities
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $4.76 million.
 
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $892.2
    million,  a decrease of $9.6 million or 1.1 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
  * The Senate rejects the MTA's proposed biennial fare  hikes  in  2023
    and 2025.
  * The  Senate  supports  the  MTA implementing a pilot program to test
    providing two free buses in each borough.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART A -- The Senate accepts in principle the Executive proposal  to
    create  a  five-year  pilot  program  for  the operation of a camera
    enforcement program on MTA buses for vehicles illegally  stopped  or
 
    parked in bus stops and lanes, bike lanes, double parking areas, and
    in general no standing zones and adds other conforming language.
  * PART  B  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    establish a speed camera  program  for  the  Triborough  Bridge  and
    Tunnel Authority.
  * PART  C  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    permanently extend the MTA's authorization to enter into alternative
    financing  arrangements  such  as  value  capture  with  locals  and
    permanently extend several MTA procurement authorizations.
  * PART  D  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    require New York City to fully cover the net  paratransit  operating
    expenses  of  the  MTA,  to  fully  cover the MTA's net fare revenue
    difference from providing reduced Metro Card rates for K-12 students
    within the City, and to  fully  cover  forgone  revenue  related  to
    Payroll Mobility Tax exemptions.
  * PART  E  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    authorize  the  MTA  to  expand  insurance  coverage   through   its
    Owner-Controlled   Insurance  Program  (OCIP)  to  include  projects
    related to buses, bridges, and tunnels, including reconstruction.
  * PART G --  The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  extending
    binding  arbitration  provisions in facilitating settlements between
    the MTA and labor representatives for two years.
  * PART H -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to  expand  the
    aggravated  assault  provisions  involving  physical  injury against
    transportation workers to include traffic checkers,  motor  vehicles
    license  examiners,  motor vehicle representatives, highway workers,
    motor carrier investigators, and motor vehicles inspectors by adding
    ferry workers and including highway  work  zone  safety  protections
    (S.4647).
  * PART  I  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to expand the
    current MTA transit ban law to ban people  who  assault  passengers,
    customers,  or  MTA  contractors  and  to  expand the law to include
    offenses committed  "adjacent  to"  the  Authority's  transportation
    facilities,  and  authorize  courts  to ban offenders outside of the
    county where the sentencing judge sits. The  modification  prohibits
    the  Authority  from  using facial recognition technology to enforce
    the bans.
  * PART Q -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    increase  the  Metropolitan  Commuter  Transportation  Mobility  Tax
    ("Payroll Mobility Tax").
  * PART R -- The Senate  modifies  the  Executive  proposal  to  direct
    funding   from   downstate   casino  licenses  to  the  Metropolitan
    Transportation Authority (MTA) by ensuring that recurring casino tax
    revenues will be dedicated to education.
  * PART UUU --  The  Senate  advances  legislation  including  the  Far
    Rockaway LIRR station in the MTA's Atlantic Ticket program (S.4719).
  * PART AAAA -- The Senate advances a new proposal to increase MTA data
    transparency  by  requiring  individual contract and project numbers
    and information and requiring more detail on capital  and  financial
    plan expenditures (S.3545 of 2023 and S.2768 of 2022).
  * NEW  PART  BBBB  --  The  Senate advances legislation increasing the
    corporate  franchise  tax  surcharge  levied  for  the  Metropolitan
    Transportation  Authority  from  30%  of State liabilities to 45% of
    State liabilities.
  * NEW PART DDDD -- The Senate advances language authorizing  New  York
    City   to   establish   a  parking  permit  system  for  residential
    neighborhoods in the City. Revenues from the parking  permit  system
    will be dedicated to the MTA.
 
  * NEW  PART  EEEE  --  The Senate advances legislation to exempt local
    governments in Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, and Rockland from  the  MTA
    payroll  tax  and  residents  of  those  counties  from supplemental
    vehicle registration and license fees used to fund the MTA.
  * NEW  PART  FFFF  --  The  Senate  advances  language  establishing a
    surcharge on transportation network company rides that occur in  the
    City  of  New York to be dedicated to the MTA, and advances language
    establishing a surcharge on  transportation  network  company  rides
    that  occur  outside the City of New York which will be dedicated to
    Upstate and Downstate non-MTA transit funding.
 
Military and Naval Affairs, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $150 million.
 
Aids to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $1.5 million.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $180 million.
 
Mortgage Agency (SONYMA)
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $76.8 million, unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $207  million,  an increase of $51.7 million or 1.3 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Motor Vehicles, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $118.9
    million, an increase of $2.4 million or 2.1 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Aids to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of $24.8
    million, unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate concurs with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $333.97
    million,  a  decrease  of  $95.6  million  or  22.4 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4008-B)
  * PART J -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend DMV's
    authorization to permit autonomous vehicle demonstrations and  tests
    for  one  year  until  April  1, 2024 by accepting the extension and
    including vehicle  to  vehicle  communication  technology  to  their
    testing and demonstrations.
 
  * PART  L  -- The Senate modifies the Executive Proposal to expand the
    "dangerous driving offenses"  triggering  DMV  refusal  to  issue  a
    driver's  license  to  include  per se DWI (.08 BAC), aggravated DWI
    (.18 BAC), first- and second-degree  vehicular  assault,  aggravated
    vehicular  assault, first- and second-degree vehicular manslaughter,
    and aggravated vehicular homicide to add mandatory  installation  of
    ignition   interlock   devices   for  DWI  convictions  (S.775)  and
    dedicating DWI surcharges  revenues  to  STOP-DWI  program  expenses
    (S.2712).
  * PART  M  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to change the
    portion of fees a county clerk may receive from the DMV for handling
    motor vehicle-related services.
  * PART N -- The Senate modifies the Executive's proposal  to  increase
    penalties  on commercial vehicles that park overnight in residential
    areas in New York City by incorporating  higher  fines  (S.518)  and
    addressing  the issue of overnight school bus parking in residential
    neighborhoods (S.1186).
 
The Senate supports efforts to modernize the DMV's Insurance Information
and Enforcement System for the Compulsory Insurance  Program,  including
adoption of an online verification system.
 
National And Community Service
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of $30.9
    million, a decrease of $2,281  or  0.01  percent  from  SFY  2022-23
    levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $454,000, an
    increase of $22,000 or 5.1 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Olympic Regional Development Authority
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of $14.1
    million.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $90 million.
 
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $353.7
    million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of $11.6
    million.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of  $344.9  million
    by  restoring  $50 million in funding for infrastructure projects at
    State parks.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
 
  * PART MM -- The Senate accepts in principle the Executive proposal to
    expand funding for  snowmobile  trail  development  and  maintenance
    through  an  increase  to  snowmobile  registration fees and makes a
    technical change to grant application requirements.
  * PART  NN -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    alter pleasure vessel equipment standards.
  * NEW  PART  CCC  --  The  Senate  advances  language  requiring   the
    Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to develop
    a parks passport program (S.261).
  * NEW  PART  DDD  --  The Senate advances language to study a proposed
    expansion of the Long Island Motor Parkway (S.3011).
 
Power Authority, New York
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $7.5
    million.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART  XX -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    authorize NYPA to develop and operate  renewable  energy  generating
    programs  and  use  the  proceeds  to establish the Renewable Energy
    Access and Community Help Program. The  Senate  has  already  passed
    S.4134, which addresses the issue in a comprehensive manner.
  * PART  YY  --  The  Senate  accepts  the Executive proposal to extend
    NYPA's current authorization to procure renewable products, allocate
    and sell renewable products that it produces or procures  to  public
    entities and NYPA customers by 20 years to June 30, 2044.
 
Prevention of Domestic Violence, Office for the
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $5.1
    million as follows:
      o Reduces $300,000 due to intentionally omitting Article VII  PPGG
        Part I related to the modernization of domestic and gender-based
        violence model policy.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All Funds recommendation of $7
    million.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4005-B)
  * PART  I  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    modernize gender-based violence policies and  procedures  and  takes
    the  position  that  such a proposal requires significant discussion
    with various stakeholders and should be  addressed  outside  of  the
    budget process.
 
Prosecutorial Conduct, Commission on
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $1.8 million. The  Senate  urges  the  Governor  to  effectuate  all
    necessary  appointments  to  the Prosecutorial Conduct Commission as
    soon as possible so the Commission can undertake its critical work.
 
Public Employment Relations Board
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $4.9 million, an increase of  $636,000  or  14.7  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation to
    zero out funding for the modernization program of SFY  2022-23  that
    becomes a reappropriation this year.
 
Ethics and Lobbying in Government, Commission on
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $7.8 million.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4005-B)
  * PART Z -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to stagger  term
    durations for appointees to the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in
    Government.
 
Public Service, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $111.8
    million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $205.8
    million,  with  modifications  to  codify  the  Energy Affordability
    Guarantee and to clarify that any energy usage cap applies  only  to
    energy usage subject to the Guarantee.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART  VV  --  The  Senate  modifies  the  Executive proposal to make
    permanent  the  State's  current  authorization  to  allow   various
    agencies  to  finance  costs incurred on behalf of the Department of
    Public Service from assessments on cable  television  companies  and
    public utilities by reducing it to a one-year extension.
  * NEW PART LLL -- The Senate advances language to require utilities to
    submit  details  on  their  customer  arrears  to the Public Service
    Commission and directs the Commission to issue a report on  customer
    arrears   across   the   state,  as  well  as  the  effects  of  the
    COVID-19-related state of emergency on the  provision  of  electric,
    gas,  water,  and  telephone  services to residential and commercial
    customers (Parts of S.1316 and S.1293).
  * NEW PART MMM -- The Senate advances language  to  align  the  Public
    Service  Law  with  the  emission  reduction mandates of the Climate
    Leadership  and  Community  Protection  Act,  ensure  an   equitable
    transition  from  the  gas distribution system to a renewable system
    for heating  and  hot  water,  eliminate  entitlement  for  new  gas
    connections,  and  cap the energy burden of low income households to
    6% of their income (S.2016).
 
State, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
 
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $139.3  million,  an  increase of $21.2 million or 17.9 percent from
    SFY 2022-23 levels, with modifications to provide  funding  for  the
    following projects:
      o $5  million  for  establishing  the  Office of Racial Equity and
        Social Justice.
      o $5 million  for  establishing  the  Office  of  Native  American
        Affairs.
      o $1  million  establishing  the Commission on Asian Americans and
        Pacific Islanders.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $179.2  million,  a  decrease  of  $24 million or 11.8 percent, with
    modifications to provide funding for the following:
      o Restores $20 million for Asian  American  and  Pacific  Islander
        (AAPI)  equity  budget  coalition  priorities,  and  adds $12.25
        million for the  Asian  American  and  Pacific  Islander  (AAPI)
        equity budget coalition priorities.
      o Adds $30 million for the Office of New Americans.
      o Adds $7 million for the Local Code Enforcement Program.
      o Restores  $1.35  million for the Public Utility Law Project, and
        adds $650,000 for a total of $2 million.
      o Restores $2 million for the New York State Immigration Coalition
        and adds $500,000 for this purpose.
      o Adds $1 million for Native American Health Clinics.
      o Adds $224,000  for  State  Opportunity  Centers  in  Westchester
        County to support the growing immigrant population.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $202
    million, which is no change from SFY 2022-23.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
 
  * NEW PART MM -- The Senate advances language establishing the  Office
    of Native American Affairs to act as a centralized office for Native
    American  nations  to  access information on State programs that are
    applicable to Native Americans (S.4648).
  * NEW PART NN -- The Senate advances language  establishing  an  Asian
    American  and  Pacific  Islander  (AAPI)  Commission, which would be
    tasked with developing  statewide  programs  and  policies  to  both
    recognize  and  encourage  the growth of the AAPI communities in the
    state (S.1051).
  * NEW PART QQ -- The Senate advances language creating the  Office  of
    Racial  Equity  and  Social  Justice  to serve as the official State
    planning and coordinating office  for  changes  in  race  or  social
    justice   policies,  practices,  and  in  the  allocation  of  State
    resources. It is  essential  that  the  Office  consider  plans  for
    eliminating  institutional  racism  and  improving racial equity and
    social justice (S.1359).
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4008-B)
  * PART T -- The Senate accepts the Executive's  proposal  to  simplify
    the  process  by  which  a  residential  condominium  designates the
    secretary of state as agent for service of process.
  * PART V -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    expand authorization to perform natural organic reduction.
 
  * PART  X  --  The  Senate  modifies the Executive proposal to provide
    flexibility under the Open  Meetings  Law  (OML)  to  public  bodies
    organized  for  disability  matters by advancing language to specify
    which public  bodies  would  be  able  to  host  fully-virtual  open
    meetings,  link  the  term  "individuals  with  disabilities" to the
    existing  parameters  set  by  Human  Rights  Law,  and  allow   for
    individuals  with  disabilities  to be counted toward a quorum under
    the existing hybrid OML system (S.1525).
  * PART Y -- The Senate accepts the  Executive  proposal  to  establish
    traineeships  for  nail  salon  employees and alter requirements for
    cosmetologists and barbering apprentices.
 
State Police, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $1.1 billion.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $237.5 million.
 
Article VII Proposals (S.4005-B)
  * PART E -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to establish  a
    statewide  repository  of  criminal  shooting incidents by including
    language  to  prohibit  the  inclusion  of  personally  identifiable
    information  in  the  repository.  The  Senate  opposes data in this
    repository being used to establish or  facilitate  any  policy  that
    would lead to the over-policing of neighborhoods.
 
State University of New York (SUNY)
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $11.6 billion as
    follows:
      o Modifies  the endowment to ensure Comptroller oversight of funds
        and grants the SUNY Trustees authority to determine  eligibility
        for the endowment.
      o Provides additional:
          -$151 million for operating aid.
          -$14.6 million for the elimination of graduate student fees.
          -$7.3 million for SUNY Educational Opportunity Centers.
          -$6 million for SUNY Educational Opportunity Programs.
          -$350,000 for SUNY Black Leadership Institute.
      o Restores:
          -$68  million  for  SUNY  Hospitals  Debt  Service. The Senate
            understands and continues to support the critical role  that
            SUNY   Hospitals  play  in  providing  critical  safety  net
            coverage.
          -$1 million for SUNY Maritime.
          -$1 million for Mental Health Services.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of  $445.4  million
    as follows:
      o Provides additional:
          -$16.7  million  in additional operating aid for the community
            colleges.
 
          -$11.2 million for the FIT County Chargeback.
          -$1.7  million  for  the  New  York  City  Cornell Cooperative
            Extension Program.
      o Restores $5.4 million for child care centers.
  * The Senate omits language requiring SUNY to submit a plan to DOB  to
    operate in the future without a base aid funding floor.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $1.7 billion as
    follows:
      o Restores:
          -$350 million in Flexible Capital.
          -$10 million for Maintenance of the EOP Centers.
      o Rejects $200 million for the  SUNY-Wide  Digital  Transformation
        Initiative.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4006-B)
  * PART  B  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    increase tuition at SUNY and CUNY.
  * PART C -- The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  ensure
    medication abortion access at SUNY and CUNY.
  * NEW PART CC -- The Senate advances language to eliminate current and
    future mandatory university fees to SUNY and CUNY graduate students,
    where  the  graduate  student  is  serving  either as a full-time or
    half-time graduate student worker (S.3500).
  * NEW PART PP -- The Senate advances language to  establish  the  SUNY
    Black Leadership Institute (S.4743).
  * NEW  PART  QQ  --  The Senate advances language to allow cadets that
    receive a SUNY Maritime scholarship to be allowed to use scholarship
    money on any cost associated with attendance (S.5083).
  * The Senate supports exploring options to raise additional  resources
    for  SUNY  through  increases to out-of-State tuition while ensuring
    that tuition remains competitive with other states' higher education
    systems.
 
Statewide Financial System
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of  $32
    million,  an  increase  of  $65,000  or 0.2 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Tax Appeals, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $3.4
    million,  an  increase  of  $72,400  or 2.1 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Taxation and Finance, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $471.9
    million, consistent with SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
 
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $7.9
    million, an increase of  $1.0  million  or  12.6  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Temporary and Disability Assistance, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $465.6
    million, a decrease of $186 million or 28.6 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $7.9 billion  as
    follows,  an  increase  of  $1.4  billion  or  20.5 percent from SFY
    2022-23 levels as follows:
      o Adds:
          -$389 million for  the  Emergency  Rental  Assistance  Program
            (ERAP) for a total of $639 million.
          -$5  million  for Legal Representation for Eviction Outside of
            NYC for a total of $40 million.
          -$5 million in additional support for the Refugee Resettlement
            Program, for a total of $7 million.
          -$1.5 million for the Disability Advocacy Program (DAP), for a
            total of $6.75 million.
          -$16 million to provide an allowance for the cost of diapers.
          -$20  million  for  a  30%  cap  on  rent  contributions   for
            HIV-positive individuals.
          -$5 million to support legislative initiatives.
      o Restores $3 million for the Double Up Food Bucks program.
      o Restores funding for the following TANF programs:
          -$5.9  million  for  the  Child  Care  Facilitated  Enrollment
            Demonstration Projects in New York City and Monroe Counties.
          -$2.5  million  for  the  Child  Care  Facilitated  Enrollment
            Demonstration  Welfare  Projects in the Capital District and
            Oneida County.
          -$800,000 for the Welfare to Careers Program.
      o The Senate supports reimbursing NYC for  29  percent  of  claims
        even  if  claims  exceed  the  $1  billion  appropriated for the
        Migrant Service and Assistance program.
      o The  Senate   supports   expanding   summer   youth   employment
        opportunities to a year-round initiative.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $128
    million, unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4006-B)
  * PART X -- The Senate modifies the  Executive  proposal  to  increase
    access  to  education  and  economic stability for public assistance
    recipients by advancing language which creates  a  six-month  earned
    income disregard in certain circumstances (S.2144).
  * PART  Y  --  The  Senate  modifies the Executive proposal to provide
    reimbursement to victims of public assistance fraud to  include  the
    reimbursement of additional benefits (S.4736).
  * PART Z -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to authorize the
    pass-through  of  any  Federal  Supplemental Security Income Cost of
    Living Adjustment.
 
  * NEW PART II -- The Senate advances language to require local  social
    service  districts to cap rent contributions for HIV-positive people
    at 30 percent of their household income (S.183).
  * NEW PART KK -- The Senate advances language to require the Office of
    Temporary and Disability Assistance to establish a statewide program
    that  would automatically grant individuals and families who qualify
    for income-based  affordability  programs  eligibility  for  utility
    corporation  energy affordability programs and requires notification
    of  eligibility  to  other  relevant   affordability   programs   to
    participants (S.4548).
 
Thruway Authority
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART F -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to create a new
    mechanism  for DMV to block the registration of a vehicle based on a
    toll-related  offense,  increase   penalties   for   license   plate
    concealment,  and  authorize  law  enforcement  and the DMV to seize
    license  plate  obstructing  materials  by  replacing  it  with  the
    Senate's   Toll   Payer   Protection  Act  (S.492-A)  and  including
    additional public outreach language.
  * NEW PART VVV -- The Senate advances a new proposal  to  require  all
    locations  that sell E-ZPasses to allow for use of cash payments for
    E-ZPasses and waives E-ZPass deposit requirements for 60 days  after
    a toll increase (S.1361).
 
Transportation, Department of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $494.4 million,
    an increase of $50.8 million or 11.5 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels
    by adding $2 million for 10 State railroad inspectors.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $5.4 billion, an
    increase of $642.5 million or 13.5 percent from SFY  2022-23  levels
    as follows:
  * Adds:
      o $88.6  million in additional support for STOA funding to non-MTA
        transit systems which would provide a 20% increase, for a  total
        of $5 billion.
      o $10  million  in  additional  support for the Innovative Transit
        Mobility Pilot Program, for a total of $20 million.
      o $16 million for grants to municipalities  to  fund  DOT  project
        studies.    These  grants  will help municipalities fund initial
        designs for road and transit projects, including but not limited
        to the following studies:
          -State Route 35 and State Route 202.
          -State Route 9-A in Manhattan.
          -Brooklyn Boulevard.
      o $6 million for the Cross Bay Bridge Reimbursement Program.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of  $8.59  billion,
    an increase of $118.4 million or 1.4 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels
    as follows:
      o Adds:
 
          -$2  billion per year in additional support for the State Road
            and Bridge Program, for a total  of  $8  billion  over  four
            years,  to  support bringing roads to a state of good repair
            within the five-year Capital Plan. This  funding  will  also
            include,  but  not  limited  to,  supporting  the  following
            priority projects:
              - Complete Streets project in the Village of Kiryas Joel.
              - Renovation of Brookville Blvd in Queens.
              - Running Track Bridge Project in Rochester.
              - Cars on Main Street project along the  Buffalo  Historic
                Commercial Corridor.
              - Center  for  Community  Transportation project extending
                the Cayuga Waterfront.
              - Prospect Street Repairs into the  Seneca  Nation  Indian
                Hill Community.
              - Relocation of Freight Rail Lines in Lackawanna.
          -$200 million in additional support for the Consolidated Local
            Street  and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS), for a total
            of $738.1 million.
          -$10 million for the Marchiselli Program, for a total  of  $50
            million.
          -$50 million for Bridge NY, for a total of $250 million.
          -$70  million  in  additional  support  for the Extreme Winter
            Recovery program, for a total of $150 million.
          -$30 million in  additional  support  for  the  State  Touring
            Routes Program, for a total of $130 million.
          -$5 million in additional support for Complete Streets project
            studies, for a total of $10 million.
          -$7  million  in  additional support for the Verrazzano Bridge
            residential and commercial toll rebate  program  to  account
            for upcoming toll increases, for a total of $26 million.
          -$15  million  in  additional  support  for the Maintenance of
            State Arterials roads.
      o The Senate supports $100 million for  a  new  five-year  capital
        plan for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA).
      o The  Senate will additionally engage the Department on repairing
        and modernizing the state-owned portion of  the  Brooklyn-Queens
        Expressway,  as well as ensuring the Department engages with the
        City of New York with respect to  providing  the  assistance  it
        needs  to complete the capital work on the City-owned portion of
        the BQE.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART K -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal authorizing  New
    York City to lower its speed limit from 25 mph to 20 mph. The Senate
    also  underscores  the  importance  of  the City using a data-driven
    approach in setting and determining  speed  limits  to  ensure  that
    motor vehicles operate at safe speeds in a manner that optimizes all
    road users' safety and convenience.
  * PART  O  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    expand the type of commercial vehicles the Department may seize  for
    failed  inspection due to out-of-service safety-related defects. The
    Senate has already passed a commercial  motor  vehicle  and  stretch
    limousine  safety  package  pursuant to the Stretch Limousine Safety
    Task Force Report (S.1367, S.1368, S.1369, S.1370-A, S.1371, S.1442,
    and S.1443-A).
  * PART P -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  add  "quick
    clearance"  language  allowing and requiring motorists involved in a
 
    crash to responsibly move away from the flow of traffic in a  timely
    manner  in  the event of a motor vehicle crash that does not involve
    an injury.
  * NEW PART OOO -- The Senate advances a new proposal to allow park and
    ride projects to be eligible for Marchiselli funding (S.5204).
  * NEW  PART  PPP  -- The Senate advances a new proposal to authorize a
    traffic flow and safety study of State Route 35 and State Route  202
    in Westchester County (S.4531-A).
  * NEW  PART RRR -- The Senate advances a new proposal to authorize the
    creation of the East  of  Hudson  Road  Salt  Reduction  Task  Force
    (S.2706).
  * NEW  PART  SSS  --  The  Senate advances legislation to increase the
    state reimbursement rate for local maintenance of arterial roads  by
    updating  the  reimbursement  formula to reflect inflation, and also
    indexes future reimbursement rates to the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
    in the Metropolitan Region (S.3529 of 2022).
  * NEW PART TTT -- The Senate advances  a  new  proposal  to  authorize
    cities  of  250,000  or  more  to establish scramble crosswalks near
    school zones on weekdays during school hours (S.2515-A).
  * NEW PART CCCC -- The Senate advances legislation authorizing a study
    of State Route 9-A in Manhattan.
 
Veterans' Affairs, Division of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $13.03  million,
    an  increase of $1.7 million or 15.4 percent from SFY 2022-23 levels
    as follows:
      o Adds $700,000 for the Mobile Veterans  Service  Centers,  for  a
        total of $1 million to provide a minimum of 10 mobile vehicles.
      o The  Senate supports including a Veterans Business Registry into
        the  Executive's  proposal  to  establish  a  Veterans  Memorial
        registry.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $12.96 million,
    an decrease of $1.5 million or 10.5 percent from SFY 2022-23  levels
    as follows:
      o Adds:
          -$250,000 to support the Alex R. Jimenez legacy program.
          -$2.5 million to support legislative initiatives.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  modifies  the Executive recommendation of $4 million, a
    decrease of $5 million or 55.6 percent from SFY  2022-23  levels  as
    follows  by  adding  $5  million for the Veteran's Nonprofit Capital
    Program.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4006-B)
  * NEW PART DD -- The Senate advances language to establish the Alex R.
    Jimenez legacy program to assist uniform service members,  veterans,
    reserve  component  members  and  their  families  to  secure  legal
    immigration status in the United States (S.3586).
 
Victim Services, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
 
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $18.3 million.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate modifies the Executive All Funds recommendation of $198.6
    million  by restoring $12 million for the Victims of Crime Act grant
    program awardees.
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $1.5 million.
 
Workers' Compensation Board
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $212.4
    million, an increase of $6.2 million or 3 percent, from SFY 2022-23.
 
Welfare Inspector General, Office of
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $1.3
    million,  an  increase  of  $24,000  or 1.8 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels.
 
Miscellaneous Appropriations, Data Analytics
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $0,  a  decrease  of  $25  million  or  100 percent from SFY 2022-23
    levels. However, there is a total of $50 million available for  this
    purpose in reappropriation authority.
 
Miscellaneous  Appropriations,  Insurance  and  Securities  Fund Reserve
Guarantee
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
  * The Senate concurs with Executive All Funds recommendation  of  $1.6
    billion, unchanged from SFY 2022-23.
 
Miscellaneous Appropriations, State Equipment Finance Program
 
Capital Projects (S.4004-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $100
    million, unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Miscellaneous  Appropriations,  Commercial  Gaming   Payment   Reduction
Offsets
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of $17.0
    million, an increase of  $7.0  million  or  70.0  percent  from  SFY
    2022-23 levels.
 
Miscellaneous Items
 
State Operations (S.4000-B)
 
  * The  Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $10 billion for
    Special Federal Emergency as follows:
      o Reduces appropriation by $8 billion to an amount consistent with
        the funding level prior to the pandemic.
      o Modifies  appropriation  language to require the approval of the
        Temporary President  of  the  Senate  and  the  Speaker  of  the
        Assembly  before appropriations can be utilized after the budget
        is enacted.
  * The Senate eliminates the Executive recommendation of $6 billion for
    Special Public Health Emergency.
  * The Senate modifies the Executive recommendation of $2  billion  for
    Special Emergency as follows:
      o Reduces appropriation by $1 billion to an amount consistent with
        the funding level provided prior to the pandemic.
      o Modifies  appropriation  language to require the approval of the
        Temporary President  of  the  Senate  and  the  Speaker  of  the
        Assembly  before appropriations can be utilized after the budget
        is enacted.
  * The Senate concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation  of  $773.9
    million for the Health Insurance Contingency Reserve.
  * The  Senate  concurs  with the Executive All Funds recommendation of
    $500 million for Public Security and Emergency Response.
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive All  Funds  recommendation  of
    $500 million for Reserve for Federal Audit Disallowance.
  * The  Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  recommendation of $292.4
    million for the Health Insurance Receipts Fund.
  * The Senate  concurs  with  the  Executive  reappropriation  of  $136
    million for Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonuses.
 
Aid to Localities (S.4003-B)
  * The Senate concurs with the Executive recommendation of $250 million
    for Raise the Age, unchanged from SFY 2022-23 levels.
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4005-B)
  * PART  CC  --  The  Senate  modifies the Executive proposal regarding
    sweeps  and  transfers  to  account   for   spending   changes   and
    intentionally omits the Executive proposals for a line of credit and
    short-term operational borrowing.
  * NEW  PART  PP  --  The Senate advances language to restore the State
    motto as it had been prior to 2020 (S.5528).
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4008-B)
  * PART EE -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal  to
    increase the bond cap of the Battery Park City Authority.
  * PART  II -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    provide for alternative procurement methodologies in the City of New
    York  and  intends  to  introduce  legislation  expediting   project
    delivery outside of the budget process.
  * PART  KK -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    expand owner-controlled and contractor-controlled insurance programs
    and intends to discuss this legislation with stakeholders outside of
    the budget process.
  * NEW PART XXX -- The Senate advances language to create a  searchable
    database  of  subsidy  and economic development benefits provided by
    local  authorities,  industrial  development  agencies,  and   local
    development  corporations  administered  by  the  Authorities Budget
    Office (S.1737).
 
  * NEW PART YYY -- The Senate advances language  to  repeal  provisions
    restricting the legal authority of members of the Public Authorities
    Control Board to review availability of sufficient funding (S.521).
 
Revenue
 
Article VII Proposal (S.4009-B)
  * PART  A  --  The  Senate accepts the Executive proposal to allow the
    Department of Tax and Finance to waive interest on late payments for
    taxpayers affected by disaster emergencies.
  * PART B --  The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  limit
    individuals  who  actively  work  at  a partnership from claiming an
    exemption from the MTA payroll mobility tax as limited partners.
  * PART C -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to allow farmers
    to claim a refund of excess Investment Tax Credits for  a  five-year
    period.
  * PART  D  -- The Senate modifies the Executive proposal to extend and
    enhance the Film Tax credit by removing language expanding  eligible
    costs  to  above-the-line  expenses,  removing  language  that would
    provide additional credits to relocated television series, expanding
    the costs eligible for the additional upstate credit  and  expanding
    the  funds  available  to this additional upstate credit. The Senate
    calls on the Empire  State  Development  Corporation  to  issue  the
    pending  disparity study required to enact the writers and directors
    diversity credit. The Senate also supports exploring further ways to
    increase  community  engagement  and  participation  with   projects
    receiving the Film Tax credit.
  * PART  E  --  The  Senate accepts the Executive proposal to allow the
    Department of Tax and Finance to abate penalties for underpayment of
    corporate tax prepayments due to unusual circumstances.
  * PART F -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  extend  the
    application  deadline  for the COVID-19 Capital Costs Tax Credit for
    six months.
  * PART G -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to create a  new
    tax  credit for businesses that create or expand the available child
    care slots for their employees.
  * PART H -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal  to  reauthorize
    New York City to allow taxpayers to claim the Biotech Tax Credit for
    three years.
  * PART  I  -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposals to extend the
    temporary corporate franchise tax rates for three years, accepts the
    proposal to extend the historic properties rehabilitation credit for
    five years, accepts the proposal to extend the commercial production
    credit for five years, accepts the proposal to extend  the  grade  6
    fuel oil conversion credit for six months, and modifies the proposal
    to  extend  the New York City Musical Theatrical credit by expanding
    eligibility to include off-Broadway theaters.
  * PART J -- The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive  proposal  to  remove
    outdated  references  in  the  transportation  to  individuals  with
    disabilities credit, modifies the proposal to amend  the  brownfield
    credit  program  to  provide for additional flexibility for existing
    projects  taking  advantage  of  the  Brownfield  Redevelopment  Tax
    Credit,  and accepts the proposal to amend the definition of taxable
    income for the purposes of the pass-through entity tax and  allowing
    New  York  City  resident  trust and estates to elect to pay the New
    York City pass-through entity tax.
 
  * PART K -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    amend  the  definition of income for the senior citizen partial real
    property tax exemption.
  * PART  L  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to extend the
    authority to impose a fee on oil and gas companies for three years.
  * PART M -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive  proposal  to
    establish  a new process to distribute the proceeds from the sale of
    homes foreclosed  by  municipalities  for  non-payment  of  property
    taxes.
  * PART  N  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    exempt the creation of a valuation methodology for the assessment of
    wind and solar energy projects  from  being  subject  to  the  State
    Administrative Procedure Act.
  * PART  O  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    give municipalities the authority to extend their existing sales tax
    rates through  local  laws  without  needing  the  approval  of  the
    Legislature.
  * PART  P  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to remove the
    registration requirement for the congestion surcharge.
  * PART Q -- The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to require motor
    fuel distributors to remit to the State all the taxes  they  collect
    from retailers.
  * PART  R  --  The Senate accepts the Executive proposal to extend the
    sales tax exemption for goods sold from  vending  machines  for  one
    more  year  only  for  vendors who are part of a business enterprise
    program for blind vendors.
  * PART S -- The Senate accepts the Executive  proposal  to  raise  the
    excise tax on cigarettes.
  * PART  T  --  The  Senate  accepts  the  Executive proposal to impose
    additional penalties on cigarette retailers that refuse to allow  an
    inspection by the Department of Tax and Finance.
  * PART  U  -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to
    extend preferential rates for the real estate transfer tax  and  the
    New  York  City  real  property  transfer  tax  when  properties are
    transferred to the ownership of a qualified real  estate  investment
    trusts.
  * PART V -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive's proposal to
    allow  the  Department of Tax and Finance to appeal decisions of the
    Tax Tribunal in court.
  * PART W -- The Senate accepts the Executive's proposal to change  the
    timeframe  by  which  the Department of Tax and Finance must deposit
    funds from three calendar days to three business days.
  * PART CC -- The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal  to
    require   corporations   to   choose   the   same  treatment  as  an
    S-corporation or a C-corporation for state and federal tax  purposes
    with the exemption of qualified manufacturers.
  * NEW  PART  DD -- The Senate advances language to fully de-couple New
    York from the Qualified Opportunity Zones program and to tax capital
    gains from investments in these zones in the same  manner  as  other
    capital gains are taxed (S.543).
  * NEW  PART  HH  -- The Senate advances language to expand the maximum
    credit for the solar energy system equipment credit from  $5,000  to
    $10,000,  to  allow  the  credit to include costs of storage systems
    installed,  to  make  the  credit  refundable  for  new   businesses
    (S.3596),  and  to  make conforming changes to the geothermal energy
    systems credit.
  * NEW PART II -- The Senate advances language to repeal the excise tax
    on medical cannabis (S.5365).
 
  * NEW PART JJ -- The Senate advances language  to  expand  the  Empire
    State  Child  Credit by allowing it to be claimed for children under
    four.
  * NEW  PART  KK -- The Senate advances language to close a loophole in
    the False Claims Act that  prohibits  actions  being  taken  against
    companies  that  knowingly  fail  to  pay  taxes  by  not filing tax
    returns.
  * NEW PART LL -- The Senate advances language to increase the personal
    income tax rates for filers making over $5 million but not over  $25
    million  from  10.3  to  10.8 percent and for filers making over $25
    million from 10.9 to 11.4 percent for Tax Years 2023 through 2027.
  * NEW PART MM -- The Senate advances language to allow individuals who
    file using an Individual Taxpayer Identification  Number  (ITIN)  to
    claim   the   state  Earned  Income  Tax  Credit  and  that  extends
    supplemental EITC payments for one year.
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