§ 179-r. Program plan submission. 1. Each state agency receiving an appropriation of state or federal funds for any program shall produce and immediately thereafter submit a program plan to the division of the budget, the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee. Such program plan shall be submitted not more than forty-five days following the latest date on which any of the appropriations covered by the program plan become law except as provided by section one hundred seventy-nine-x of this article.
2. The division of the budget shall have not more than ninety days following the latest date on which any of the appropriations covered by the program plan become law to issue a certificate of approval for each item of appropriation included in the program plan. A copy of such certificate of approval shall be forwarded to the senate finance committee, the assembly ways and means committee and the office of the state comptroller.