Section 22-B. Report of the legislature on the enacted budget  


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  • Within thirty
      days  of  passage of the budget the senate and the assembly shall issue,
      either jointly or separately, a legislative report on the  budget.  Such
      report  shall contain a description of appropriation changes between the
      budget submitted by the governor and the enacted budget and  the  effect
      of  such  changes  on  employment  levels.  Commencing  with fiscal year
      nineteen hundred ninety-four--nineteen hundred ninety-five, such  report
      shall  also  summarize  changes  in appropriations by function in a form
      suitable for comparison with the schedule required to be submitted  with
      the governor's proposed budget. Commencing with fiscal year two thousand
      seven--two thousand eight, such report shall also include an estimate of
      the  impact  of  the  enacted  budget  on  local  governments, the state
      workforce, and general fund projections for  the  ensuing  fiscal  year,
      consistent  with  the  requirements  of  subdivision  one-c  of  section
      twenty-two of this article. The findings and descriptions  contained  in
      the  report  required by this section shall constitute the expression of
      legislative intent with respect to  the  budget  to  which  such  report
      relates.