Directs the comptroller to examine and audit appropriations and contracts for short-term humanitarian aid, including shelter services, to migrant individuals and families

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                                          6963

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     March 18, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          comptroller  to  examine  and  audit  appropriations and contracts for
          short-term humanitarian aid  including  shelter  services  to  migrant
          individuals and families

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds  that  the
     2  state  of  New  York  and the city of New York have a migrant crisis and
     3  that as the city of New York distributes funding for the relief of  this
     4  migrant crisis, such funds should have oversight from the comptroller of
     5  the state of New York on how such funding is spent.
     6    §  2.  Section 8 of the state finance law is amended by adding two new
     7  subdivisions 21 and 22 to read as follows:
     8    21. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION  OF  LAW,  EXAMINE  AND
     9  AUDIT  ALL FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR HUMANITARIAN AID, INCLUDING SHORT-TERM
    10  SHELTER SERVICES, TO MIGRANT INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES,  INCLUDING  COSTS
    11  ASSOCIATED  WITH  HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND RELIEF CENTERS FOR
    12  MIGRANT INDIVIDUALS ENTERING  SHORT-TERM  SHELTERS  ON  OR  AFTER  APRIL
    13  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-TWO IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND INCLUDING
    14  PUBLIC ASSISTANCE BENEFITS AND/OR OTHER  BENEFITS  PROVIDED  TO  MIGRANT
    15  INDIVIDUALS  AND  FAMILIES.  UPON THOROUGH EXAMINATION, AUDIT, AND IDEN-
    16  TIFICATION OR PROPORTIONALITY OF DISTRIBUTIONS, MAKE  A  REPORT  TO  THE
    17  LEGISLATURE CONTAINING SAID FINDINGS PRIOR TO THE CONVENING OF ITS ANNU-
    18  AL SESSION.
    19    22.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  INCONSISTENT  PROVISION OF LAW, EXAMINE AND
    20  AUDIT ALL CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO BY THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR HUMANITARI-
    21  AN AID, INCLUDING SHORT-TERM SHELTER SERVICES,  TO  MIGRANT  INDIVIDUALS
    22  AND FAMILIES, INCLUDING CONTRACTS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY
    23  RESPONSE  AND RELIEF CENTERS FOR MIGRANT INDIVIDUALS ENTERING SHORT-TERM

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09820-02-5
        A. 6963                             2

     1  SHELTERS ON OR AFTER APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO IN THE CITY OF
     2  NEW YORK, AND INCLUDING CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE BENEFITS  AND/OR
     3  OTHER  BENEFITS PROVIDED TO MIGRANT INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. UPON THOR-
     4  OUGH  EXAMINATION,  AUDIT,  AND  IDENTIFICATION  OR  PROPORTIONALITY  OF
     5  DISTRIBUTIONS, MAKE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE CONTAINING SAID FINDINGS
     6  PRIOR TO THE CONVENING OF ITS ANNUAL SESSION.
     7    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.