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Assembly Bill A6782

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Reduces the salary for members of the legislature by ten percent

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2013-A6782 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2013-A6782 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to reducing the salary for members of the legislature by ten percent.

2013-A6782 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6782

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 18, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to reducing legislative
  salaries

  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] TWO THOU-
SAND FOURTEEN, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary  of
[seventy-nine  thousand  five hundred] SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
FIFTY 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,  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.
  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 January 1, 2014.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08370-02-3

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