Legislative Bill Drafting Commission - 12261-02-6

       Legislative Bill Drafting Commission
                    12261-02-6
 
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      IN SENATE--Introduced by Sen
 
      --read twice and ordered printed,
      and when printed to be committed
      to the Committee on
 
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      IN ASSEMBLY--Introduced by M. of A.
 
      with M. of A. as co-sponsors
 
 
      --read once and referred to the
      Committee on
 
      *BUDGBI*
      (Relates   to   authorizing  certain
      payments, deposits and transfers for
      the support of government)
 
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      Payments for supp. gov't
 
                     AN ACT
 
      to amend chapter 61 of the  laws  of
      2005 relating to authorizing certain
      payments, deposits and transfers for
      the  support  of  government; and to
      amend  the  state  finance  law,  in
      relation  to  the  school tax relief
      fund
 
        The People of  the  State  of  New
      York,   represented  in  Senate  and
      Assembly, do enact as follows:
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   1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 entitled Education in section 3 of part Y of
 
   2  chapter 61  of  the  laws  of  2005,  relating  to  authorizing  certain
 
   3  payments, deposits and transfers in support of government, as amended by
 
   4  section  8  of  part  A of chapter 63 of the laws of 2005, is amended to
 
   5  read as follows:
 
   6    § 3. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, and in  accordance  with
 
   7  section 4 of the state finance law, the comptroller is hereby authorized
 
   8  and directed to transfer, upon request of the director of the budget, on
 
   9  or  before March 31, 2006, up to the unencumbered balance or the follow-
 
  10  ing amounts:
 
  11    Education:
 
  12    2. $227,500,000 from the general fund to the state lottery fund (160),
 
  13  VLT education account (06), as reimbursement for disbursements made from
 
  14  such fund for supplemental aid to education pursuant to section 92-c  of
 
  15  the  state  finance  law  that are in excess of the amounts deposited in
 
  16  such fund for such purposes pursuant to section 1612 of the tax law.
 
  17    Notwithstanding any law  to  the  contrary,  and  in  accordance  with
 
  18  section 4 of the state finance law, the comptroller is hereby authorized
 
  19  and directed to transfer, upon request of the director of the budget, on
 
  20  or  before  March  31, 2006, $130,000,000 in one-time resources from the
 
  21  general fund to the state lottery fund (160) VLT education account  (06)
 
  22  to  be held in reserve for payment of sound basic education aid in state
 
  23  fiscal year 2006-07.
 
  24    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 97-rrr of  the  state  finance  law,  as
 
  25  added  by  section  9  of  part  Y of chapter 61 of the laws of 2005, is
 
  26  amended to read as follows:
 
  27    5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred seventy-one-a
 
  28  of the tax law, as separately amended by chapters four  hundred  eighty-
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   1  one  and four hundred eighty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred eight-
 
   2  y-one, or any other provisions of law to the contrary, during the fiscal
 
   3  year beginning April first, two thousand five, the state comptroller  is
 
   4  hereby  authorized  and directed to deposit to the fund created pursuant
 
   5  to this section from amounts collected pursuant to article twenty-two of
 
   6  the tax law and pursuant to a schedule submitted by the director of  the
 
   7  budget,  up  to  [$3,222,000,000] $3,319,000,000, as may be certified in
 
   8  such schedule as necessary to meet the purposes of  such  fund  for  the
 
   9  fiscal year beginning April first, two thousand five.
 
  10    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 
  11  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2005.