Pre-Audit - State Insurance Fund – Vetoed on December 29, 2021 - Veto Memo 89 – A.7286/S.7177 (Rodriguez/Krueger) – Relates to the pre-audit of expenditures from the state insurance fund by the state comptroller.
This report examines the use of overtime by New York State agencies over the past ten calendar years. The total cost of overtime in calendar year 2020 reached an all-time high at more than $850 million, covering roughly 19.1 million overtime hours worked.
Millions of dollars remain on the table as limited improvement made on problems found a year ago.
The state Gaming Commission has made only limited progress fixing problems with its monitoring of casinos, especially with its failure to collect millions in oversight fees from casinos, according to a follow-up report released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The problems were first identified in an audit DiNapoli released in 2020 that found the commission had not collected $13 million owed by casinos.
Oil Spill – A.7281 (Englebright) – To protect homeowners from the onerous costs related to the remediation of petroleum discharges on residential property.
Natural Gas Damage Compensation Fund – A.7282 (Englebright) – Establishes the natural gas production contamination response and compensation program; and creates the New York natural gas production contamination damage recovery and remediation fund.
Federal relief critical to state, but opportunities missed to improve long-term fiscal position.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today released a statement on behalf of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) to fellow Amazon shareholders in advance of the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting on May 26, 2021.
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government audits were issued.
In March, the Office of the State Comptroller approved 1,696 contracts for state agencies and public authorities valued at $2.3 billion and approved nearly 27.1 million payments worth more than $40.8 billion. The Office rejected 137 contracts and related transactions valued at $160 million and nearly 17,100 payments valued at nearly $46 million, primarily for mistakes, insufficient support for charges, and improper payments. More information on these contracts and payments is available at www.openbooknewyork.com.
