General Government Budget Bill
Transportation, Economic Development and Enviornmental Conservation Budget Bill
Public Protection, Health and Mental Hygiene Budget Bill
Education, Labor and Family Assistance Budget Bill
To accommodate funding of the Department's legal technology program, the amendment increases a General Fund / State Operations appropriation by $2.7 million for costs associated with the ongoing improvement of the Department's computer operations.
The amendment increases the General Fund / State Operations appropriation by $400,000 to provide funding to implement the recently passed Lobbying Act. This funding will support 11 additional positions to enable the Commission to carry out the added reporting, auditing and other requirements included in the Lobbying Act.
To accommodate funding to support development of a new uniform permit application process, the amendment increases a General Fund / State Operations appropriation by $500,000 for costs associated with creation of an on-line, consolidated permit application process for new or expanding businesses.
The amendment provides a reappropriation of 1999-2000 General Fund / Aid to Localities funds for the siting of wireless telecommunication towers which will not be fully encumbered before the September 2000 lapse date.
The amendment adds $3.6 million to support increased cigarette tax enforcement efforts.
The amendment increases the General Fund / State Operations appropriations for the Office for Technology by $4.2 million for various purposes, including $3.3 million for administrative support for the consolidated Data Center, Application Services Center, the New York Network and current operations; $600,000 for the development of a State Information Technology Training Academy for State and local information technology professionals; and $316,000 for the cost of implementing the 1999 State Technology Law.
The amendments:
1. Provide authority to transfer Child Support Incentive funds received in the Federal grant award to the Child Support Incentive Special Revenue Other Account.
2. Delete appropriation language which constrains the amount that SUNY can transfer from its tuition Collection Fund into the Income Offset Account at the end of the State fiscal year. The authorizing transfer language is being added to the General Government Article VII bill.
3. Make technical corrections to add $15 million to the SUNY Dormitory Income Fund transfer appropriation and to change the end date for such transfers to March 30, 2001. By adding this amount, the transfer appropriation from the Dormitory Income Fund will equal the appropriation provided for the SUNY Dormitory Operations Account which receives the transfer.
The amendment increases the General Fund / State Operations appropriation for personal service by $150,000 for three additional staff for the Adirondack Park Agency.
Amendments to General Fund / Aid to Localities appropriations permit transfer of up to $1.3 million provided for agricultural economic development programs to State Operations, and add $109,000 which was unintentionally omitted for the Cornell University Diagnostic Laboratory roof.
The amendment makes a technical change to correct the date of the grant period for a Federal appropriation.
The amendment adds a new General Fund / Aid to Localities appropriation of $100,000 for mechanical harvesting for weed control in Lake Champlain.
The amendments increase the appropriations for personal service funded from the General Fund ($480,000), and personal service and fringe benefits funded from the Conservation Fund ($991,000) and the Environmental Regulatory Account ($465,000) to provide for retroactive and ongoing overtime costs for Supervising Environmental Conservation Officers; and adds a new General Fund / State Operations appropriation ($500,000) to provide for a training academy for Environmental Conservation Officers and Forest Rangers.
The amendment makes a technical change to correct a typographical error in the appropriation for the Return a Gift to Wildlife Program funded from the Conservation Fund.
The amendment increases the General Fund / State Operations appropriation by $350,000 to provide for projected lease costs associated with New York City (Region 2) headquarters.
The amendment adds a $1.5 million appropriation to provide State matching funds for the Federal Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program.
The amendment adds a $1 million appropriation for preliminary planning costs associated with the Governor's Island redevelopment initiative.
The amendment modifies language regarding the use of assistant counsel and paralegals in capital defense cases assigned to private attorneys, to conform with language in the Public Protection Article VII bill.
Technical amendments add language to the Federal Health and Human Services Account to authorize suballocation to the Higher Education Services Corporation; correct the Administration Program, Special Revenue - Other, appropriation by decreasing it by $10,000; and add language to the Special Revenue - Other, Health Occupation Development and Workplace Demonstration Account, to authorize a suballocation to the Department of Labor.
Technical amendments correct a General Fund / Aid to Localities appropriation by adding $500 and reappropriate $1 million for the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance to carry out services related to the Operational Support of AIDS Housing (OSAH).
The amendments add language to the Special Revenue Funds - Federal / State Operations and Special Revenue Funds - Other / State Operations appropriations to allow funds to be transferred to the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to pay Medicaid local administration costs.
A technical amendment identifies the correct appropriation for the Special Revenue - Other Emergency Medical Services' reappropriation.
The amendment adds language for the General Fund / State Operations appropriation to provide authority to pay for both the operation of the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS)and development/implementation of the Replacement Medicaid System (RMS).
The amendments make technical corrections and add language for the Special Revenue Funds - Federal / State Operations and Special Revenue Funds - Other / State Operations, HCRA Transfer Fund appropriations to allow funds to be suballocated or transferred to or from other State agencies and Department of Health appropriations, and also make a technical amendment to restore a Special Revenue Funds - Other / State Operations appropriation that was inadvertently omitted.
The amendment adds language for the General Fund / Aid to Localities and the Special Revenue Funds - Federal / Aid to Localities appropriations to provide funding for cost-of-living adjustments for medical assistance payments to diagnostic and treatment centers licensed under Article 28 of the Public Health Law that provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities as their primary mission, and increases each appropriation by $500,000.
The amendment provides additional General Fund / State Operations appropriation of $480,000 for expenses of the Wadsworth Laboratories to meet new U.S. Postal Service regulations for shipping infectious materials.
A technical amendment adds capital projects reappropriations for DOH institutions.
The amendment increases the nonpersonal service appropriation by $4.1 million to ensure payments to localities for costs related to various water and sewer improvement projects at correctional facilities.
The amendments (1) increase the appropriation for the Criminal Justice Improvement Account by $249,300 for expenses related to crime victim claim processing improvements and make technical changes for language consistency; (2) add a new appropriation of $100,000 for services and expenses related to the ADAM (Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring) program and provides transferability to State Operations for the purchase of equipment on behalf of localities; and (3) make a technical modification to language in reference to the Capital District domestic violence law clinic.
The amendment increases the Federal nonpersonal service appropriation by $554,500 for Federal grants received from the National Institute of Justice for costs associated with investigative lab work in forensic science.
The amendment is a technical correction to a Fiduciary Fund / State Operations reference to a fiduciary fund and its fund number. The fund name and number are being amended at the request of the Office of the State Comptroller.
The amendment increases the recommended nonpersonal service appropriation by $400,000 to ensure that sufficient funds are available for the State to fulfill its match obligations under the State/Federal master agreements.
The amendment increases the appropriation by $54,700 to reflect a higher than anticipated Federal grant award.
A technical amendment changes the fiscal year reference in the contingency reappropriation for DOH Institutions.
The amendments increase the appropriation for nonpublic school mandated services aid by $3.7 million to reflect revised aid claim data submitted by the State Education Department and increase the Consortium for Workforce Education appropriation by $500,000 with a commensurate increase in the Consortium for Workforce Education appropriation offset.
Additionally, technical amendments are made to limit 2000-01 building aid payments to the amount reported as of November 15, 1999, and to specify correct grant periods for certain Special Revenue Federal Funds.
The amendment makes technical changes to specify the correct grant period for a Special Revenue Federal Fund.
Technical amendments modify the General Fund and Fiduciary Fund appropriations for the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped.
A technical amendment modifies the appropriation language for the Detention program to reflect the current calendar year.
In addition, technical amendments reappropriate $355,000 for the Youth Delinquency Prevention Program and $1,000,000 for the Special Delinquency Prevention Program.
The amendment restores a reappropriation for youth facility improvement projects to reflect current timetables for project completion.
The amendment restores a reappropriation for youth facility improvement projects to reflect current timetables for project completion.
The amendment restores two reappropriations for youth facility improvement projects to reflect current timetables for project completion.
The amendments:
The amendment adds language to more clearly identify the Single Room Occupancy subsidy program appropriation.
The amendments:
The amendment makes a technical correction to a Special Revenue Other / State Operations appropriation to reflect recently enacted legislation that provides increased resources for enforcement of the Labor Law.
The amendment conforms welfare-to-work block grant reappropriation language with recent Federal policy guidance concerning the program.
The amendment adds language that was inadvertently omitted which allows the appropriated amount to be used for dormitory operations and limits the amount that can be used for liability insurance purposes to $5 million.
The amendment makes a technical correction to the State University Hospitals Income Reimbursable Account and the State University-wide Hospital Reimbursable Account. The appropriated amounts for these two subaccounts were inadvertently reversed.
The amendment makes a technical correction to the Capital Projects - reappropriation language for community colleges. The year relating to the amount of reappropriation that can be obligated should be 2000-01.
The amendment makes a technical correction to the expiration date of the appropriation.