Section 17. Reports on financed equipment acquisitions

Within thirty days
  following the  close  of  each  calendar  quarter,  beginning  with  the
  calendar  quarter  ending  on  December  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred
  eighty-eight,  the  director  of  the  budget  shall,  to   the   extent
  practicable,  provide  a  report  to  the  chairs  of the senate finance
  committee and the assembly ways and means committee showing expenditures
  for lease purchase and installment  purchase  payments  made  by  or  on
  behalf  of  any  state  department  and  agency or any unit of the state
  university or  city  university  of  New  York  for  financed  equipment
  acquisitions  during  the preceding calendar quarter. Such reports shall
  be  organized  by  agency,  program,  fund,  and  appropriation.   State
  departments  and agencies and units of the state university and the city
  university of New York, the state comptroller, and the  commissioner  of
  the  office  of  general services shall assist the director in obtaining
  the information necessary to produce such reports.