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Assembly Bill A5491

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Reduces the salaries of members of the legislature to $35,000 a year and provides that regular session ends on March 31st

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2015-A5491 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, add Art 1-B §1-aa, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9259
2013-2014: A6344

2015-A5491 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces the salaries of members of the legislature to $35,000 a year and provides that regular session ends on March 31st.

2015-A5491 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5491

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 24, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. NOJAY, FRIEND, TENNEY, WALTER, CORWIN -- read
  once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to reducing the  salary
  of  members  of  the state legislature and to provide that the regular
  legislative session shall end on March 31

  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 SEVENTEEN, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary of
[seventy-nine  thousand  five  hundred  dollars]  THIRTY-FIVE   THOUSAND
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 sala-
ry 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. The legislative law is amended by adding a  new  article  1-B  to
read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 1-B
                      LEGISLATIVE SESSION CALENDAR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07802-01-5

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