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NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE
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Legislature Announces 2022 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing Schedule |
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair, Helene E. Weinstein today announced the Joint Legislative Hearing Schedule on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 Executive Budget Proposal. These hearings, each of which focuses on a programmatic area of the Executive Budget Proposal, are intended to provide the appropriate legislative committees with public input. In the interest of public health and safety, the hearings will be conducted virtually using web-based The hearings will be available for viewing on the Senate and Assembly websites. The In accordance with the schedule, the hearings will commence on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 and Due to time constraints related to provisions of the New York State Constitution concerning the Requests to testify must be made by submitting a Hearing Request Form no later than 5 p.m. on the dates listed in the chart below. The Hearing Request Form can also be found on both the Senate and Assembly websites at www.nysenate.gov and www.nyassembly.gov, respectively. In order to afford ample opportunity to be heard, please note that no person or entity will be permitted to testify at more than one hearing. However, any person or entity is permitted – and indeed encouraged – to submit written testimony for any hearing. For individuals not testifying, written testimony must be submitted no later than 5 p.m. on the day of the corresponding hearing to financechair@nysenate.gov and to wamchair@nyassembly.gov. The submission of written testimony for anyone who is requesting to testify must be done in compliance with the chart set forth below. Witnesses who have had their requests to testify accepted by the committees are required to send a copy of their written testimony via email no later than the dates listed in the chart below to both financechair@nysenate.gov and to wamchair@nyassembly.gov. No one will be permitted to testify unless testimony is emailed to the committees accordingly and received by 5 p.m. on the due date listed in the chart below. Due to the heavy volume of written testimony received, once submitted, no modifications of the submitted testimony will be accepted. Please note that these requirements will be rigidly enforced and failure to submit written testimony in a timely manner will result in exclusion from the final witness list. Witnesses also must indicate in the subject field of the email containing their written testimony which hearing their testimony relates to. Witnesses are strongly encouraged to summarize their key points in their oral testimony, and not simply read from their written testimony. Witnesses must limit their oral testimony to no more than three minutes, after which time they should be prepared to entertain questions from legislators. The agency and the departmental portion of the hearings are provided for in Article 7, Section 3
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