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Assembly Bill A9825

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to salaries of members when a budget is not passed on time

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2011-A9825 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง5, Leg L

2011-A9825 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to salaries of members when a budget is not passed on time.

2011-A9825 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9825

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 13, 2012
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to salaries of  members
  when a budget is not passed on time

  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  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]  BY  APRIL  FIRST OR THE FIRST SESSION DAY FOLLOWING APRIL
FIRST SHOULD APRIL FIRST FALL ON A NON-SESSION DAY, 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].   SUCH
BI-WEEKLY PAYMENTS SHALL RESUME UPON PASSAGE OF  THE  BUDGET,  PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, ANY MISSED PAYMENTS SHALL NOT BE PAID RETROACTIVELY.
  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.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14325-03-2

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