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Constitutional, Statutory, & Rule Provisions,
Caselaw, Law Review articles, etc.
underlying
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New York State Constitution

Constitutional provisions pertaining to the Budget
Article VII, §§1-7; Article IV,§7

Constitutional and statutory provisions pertaining to the timeliness
of the Governor's budget bills & legislation
Constitution, Article VII,§§2, 3; State Finance Law §22(16)

Constitutional, rule, and statutory provisions pertaining to openness
Article III, §10; Senate Rules XI, §1; V, §5d, §7; VI, §1; VIII, §3, §4, §5, §7;  IX, §6; XV;  
Assembly Rules II, §1; III, §2; IV, §2, §3; V, §2, §5; VI; Public Officers Law, Articles VI, VII

Senate & Assembly rules mandating memos, fiscal notes, impact statements
Senate Rule VII, §1; Senate Rule VIII, §7; Assembly Rule III, §1f, §2a;
Permanent Joint Senate/Assembly Rule I

Statutes pertaining to reappropriations -- & relevant constitutional provisions
State Finance Law §25, §43; Article III, §16

Statutory and rule provisions pertaining to legislative budget schedule
Legislative Law §53, §54-a; Senate-Assembly Joint Rule III; Assembly Rule I, §8

Statutory and rule provisions pertaining to budget conference committees
Legislative Law §54-a; Senate-Assembly Joint Rules III, II
Chapter 1 of the Laws of 2007
A-2755   S-1322

Statutes pertaining to legislative budget hearings
Legislative Law §31, §32-a

Senate & Assembly rules pertaining to amendments
Senate Rule VII, §4b; IX, §4; Assembly Rule III, §1f; Assembly Rule III, §6

Statutes mandating legislative reports on the budget
Legislative Law §54; State Finance Law §22-b

Senate & Assembly rules pertaining to oversight & annual reports
Senate Rule VIII, §4(c), §4(d); Assembly Rule IV, §1(d), §1(e), §4(b), §9

Constitutional provisions pertaining to messages of necessity
Article III, §14, Articles VII, §§4-5

See, also: "Albany's Dysfunction Denies Due Process"
Professor Eric Lane, Pace Law Review (2010)

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posting Brennan Center Reports --2004, 2006, 2008

Budget Cases

Pataki v. Assembly & Senate
Silver v. Pataki
Court of Appeals decision (2004)

briefs before Court of Appeals
[Silver] Silver's brief - March 26, 2004
[Silver] Senate brief - March 29, 2004
[Silver] Governor's brief - July 19, 2004
[Silver] Silver's reply brief - August 20, 2004
[Silver] Senate reply brief - August 20, 2004

[Pataki] Assembly brief - August 12, 2004
[Pataki] Senate brief - August 13, 2004
[Pataki] Governor's brief- October 20, 2004
[Pataki] Assembly reply brief - October 29. 2004
[Pataki] Senate reply brief - November 1, 2004

Pataki v. Assembly & Senate
Albany Supreme Court decision (Malone) (2002)
Appellate Division, Third Department decision (2004)

Silver v. Pataki
Manhattan Supreme Court decision (Lehner) (2002)
Appellate Division, First Department decision (2003)

"The New York State Budget Process and the Constitution:
Defining and Protecting the 'Delicate Balance of Power",
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
(Committee on State Affairs),
58 The Record 345 (Oct. 2003)

Rockefeller Institute --
Budgets & the Balance of Power:
The Lasting Impact of Silver v. Pataki &
How It Shapes the Future of Government in New York State (June 16, 2015)

Albany Law School-Institute of Legal Studies
continuing legal education

New York State Bankers Association v. Wetzler
Court of Appeals decision (1993)

Winner v. Cuomo
Appellate Division, 3rd Dept decision (1992)

Saxton v. Carey
Court of Appeals decision (1978)
Appellate Division, 3rd Dept decision (1978)

Levitt v. Rockefeller
Supreme Court decision (1972)

Hidley v. Rockefeller
Court of Appeals decision(1971)
Appellate Division, 3rd Dept decision (1971)

Tremaine 2
Court of Appeals decision (1939)
Appellate Division, 3rd Dept decision (1939)

Tremaine I 
Court of Appeals decision (1929)
Appellate Division 3rd Dept decision (1929)

  

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As to the unconstitutionality of three-men-in-a-room
budget deal-making

King v. Cuomo -- Court of Appeals decision (1993)
Seymour v. Cuomo -- Appellate Division 3rd Dept decision (1992)

See, also "The Anti-Corruption Principle",
Professor Zephyr Teachout, Cornell Law Review (2009)

other relevant cases:

Michael Cohen v. New York State
Court of Appeals decision (1999)
NY Supreme Court decision (1999)

Bellacosa/Ct of Appeals: 

The Governor proposes a budget, recommending appropriations (NY Const, art VII, §3), and the Legislature may strike out or reduce items, as well as propose its own additions (NY Const, art VII, §4). The Governor's proposals, if enacted by the Legislature (both Houses acting in harmony), shall become law without further Executive action; appropriations for the Legislature and Judiciary and any proposed additional appropriations, however, are subject to the Governor's further action (NY Const, art VII, §4).

Chapter 635 of the Laws of 1998 adds procedural oil to this delicately calibrated mechanism. The Legislature, as a Branch of government, must have "finally acted on" the appropriations submitted by the Governor before individuallegislators may be paid. The inducement does not require that the Legislature pass the Governor's budget; only that it pass a budget (see, Senate Debate Transcripts, pp 6622–6629, 6625–6626, Bill Jacket, L 1998, ch 635).
...

Just as the plaintiffs theorize about scenarios where the Governor may "force" legislators into budgetary submission, competing hypotheses may be composed. For example, the Legislature could simply have stricken some of the Governor's proposed appropriations and offered no additions of its own. The State would then have had an instant budget over which the Governor would have had no subsequent, separate, constitutionally assigned role."

Korn v. Gulotta, 72 NY2d 363 (1988)

      dissent: "where a budget is prepared in clear violation of a statutory or constitutional mandate, it is subject to review by the courts (see, Wein v Carey, 41 N.Y.2d 498; Matter of Block v Sprague, 285 N.Y. 69)."

Block v. Sprague, 285 NY 69 (1941)

Wein v. State of New York, 39 N.Y.2d 136 (1976)

Wein v. Carey, 41 N.Y.2d 498 (1977)  -- "constitutionally mandated and meticulously directed process (NY Const, art VII, §§ 1-4)"

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VIDEO of NYS Senate Select Committee on Budget & Tax Reform's December 17, 2009 hearing

Transcript & written statements

       Discovering the Hidden History of "Budget Reform"

S.8414/A.11995  - 2006

S07615 -- 2004 

Senate passes budget reform legislation -- Catharine Young (Jan. 2007)

NEW YORK STATE GOVERNMENT
Robert B. Ward/The Rockefeller Institute Press  (2nd edition, 2006)

Chapter 10:  State Government's Biggest Job: The Budget

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RECORD --
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The Legislature's "Internal Control Responsibilities"
under Legislative Law Article VI

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