ALBANY — New York’s new state budget provides funding for a stockpile of emergency generators so gas stations can keep pumping and avoid the shortages and long lines that plagued many areas in the days after Hurricane Sandy.

The spending plan still being voted into law in Albany would create an inventory of generators under contract through a state agency that could be leased to gas stations in a disaster.

After Sandy hit the Northeast last fall, New Jersey and then New York had to begin rationing.