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Assembly Bill A9453

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Withholds pay to legislators if governor or the legislature delays annual appropriations

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2009-A9453 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง5, Leg L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A4443

2009-A9453 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Withholds pay to legislators if governor delays annual appropriations.

2009-A9453 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9453

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 6, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BOYLE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to withholding  pay  if
  governor or the legislature delays annual appropriations

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  5  of  the  legislative  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  635  of  the  laws  of 1998, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. Effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, each  member
of  the legislature shall receive a salary of seventy-nine thousand five
hundred dollars per annum. Such salary of a member  of  the  legislature
shall be payable in twenty-six bi-weekly installments provided, however,
that if:
  (A)  legislative passage of the budget as defined in subdivision three
of this section has not occurred prior to the first day  of  any  fiscal
year,  the  net amount of any such bi-weekly salary installment payments
to be paid on or after such day shall be withheld  and  not  paid  until
such  legislative passage of the budget has occurred whereupon bi-weekly
salary installment payments shall resume and  an  amount  equal  to  the
accrued, withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each
member; OR
  (B)  THE GOVERNOR OR THE LEGISLATURE DELAYS ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS, THE
NET AMOUNT OF ANY SUCH BI-WEEKLY SALARY INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS TO BE  PAID
ON  OR  AFTER  SUCH DAY SHALL BE WITHHELD AND NOT PAID UNTIL SUCH ANNUAL
APPROPRIATIONS HAVE  OCCURRED  WHEREUPON  BI-WEEKLY  SALARY  INSTALLMENT
PAYMENTS  SHALL  RESUME AND AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE ACCRUED, WITHHELD AND
UNPAID INSTALLMENTS SHALL BE PROMPTLY PAID TO EACH MEMBER.
  For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
any or all of the following  deductions:  federal  taxes,  state  taxes,
social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
ment  contributions,  contributions  to  health insurance or other group
insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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