Legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill

The report must contain all of the following: a list of all earmarks; the cost of each earmark; and the beneficiary of each earmark. If the beneficiary is an individual, LFB must identify the assembly and senate district in which the beneficiary resides.

If the beneficiary is an entity, LFB must identify the assembly and senate district in which the beneficiary is located, incorporated, or organized. With respect to an amendment to a biennial budget bill, LFB must identify the representative to the assembly or senator who proposed the earmark.

Joint Committee on Finance consideration of biennial budget bill The bill provides that the Joint Committee on Finance may not vote to recommend passage of a biennial budget bill or an amendment thereto until LFB has distributed a copy of the earmark transparency report to each member of the legislature and has made the report available on the legislature's Internet Web site.

Senate and assembly consideration of biennial budget bill The bill provides that neither house of the legislature may pass a biennial budget bill until LFB has distributed a copy of the earmark transparency report on the biennial budget bill, as amended, to each member of the legislature and has made the report available on the legislature's Internet Web site. The bill further provides that, if a committee of conference is convened on a biennial budget bill, a conference report may not contain any earmark that was not included in the executive budget bill or an amendment thereto that was passed by either house of the legislature but may reduce any earmark that was so included.