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Assembly Bill A6783

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Allows members of the state legislature to receive a reduced salary

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2013-A6783 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2013-A6783 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing members of the state legislature to receive a reduced salary.

2013-A6783 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6783

                       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 allowing members  of
  the state legislature to receive a reduced salary

  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 , OR A LESSER AMOUNT AS SELECTED BY THE MEMBER
BEFORE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR. 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 immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09846-01-3

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