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                                   7891
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 18, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  authorities  law, in relation to salary
   adjustments according to plan and step-ups or increments
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3 of section 3669 of the
 public authorities law, as added by chapter 84 of the laws of  2000,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  During  a  control period, upon a finding by the authority that a
 wage freeze is essential to the adoption  or  maintenance  of  a  county
 budget  or  a  financial plan that is in compliance with this title, the
 authority, after enactment of a resolution so  finding,  may  declare  a
 fiscal  crisis.  Upon  making such a declaration, the authority shall be
 empowered to order that all increases in salary or wages of employees of
 the county and employees of covered organizations which will take effect
 after the date of the order pursuant  to  collective  bargaining  agree-
 ments,  other analogous contracts or interest arbitration awards, now in
 existence or hereafter entered into, requiring such salary increases  as
 of  any  date thereafter are suspended. Such order may also provide that
 all increased payments for holiday and vacation differentials, AND shift
 differentials[, salary adjustments according to  plan  and  step-ups  or
 increments]  for employees of the county and employees of covered organ-
 izations which will take effect after the date of the order pursuant  to
 collective  bargaining agreements, other analogous contracts or interest
 arbitration awards requiring such increased  payments  as  of  any  date
 thereafter  are,  in  the  same  manner,  suspended. SUCH ORDER MAY ALSO
 PROVIDE THAT ALL INCREASED PAYMENTS FOR SALARY ADJUSTMENTS ACCORDING  TO
 PLAN  AND  STEP-UPS  OR INCREMENTS BE SUSPENDED; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, WHEN
 (I) THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE PROVIDES A FOUR YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN APPROVED BY
 THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD11662-01-7

 A. 7891                             2
 
 SECTION  THIRTY-SIX  HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN OF THIS TITLE AND THE AUTHORITY
 DETERMINES, PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (B) OF  SUCH  SUBDIVISION,  THAT  SUCH
 FINANCIAL  PLAN IS COMPLETE AND COMPLIES WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH IN
 SUCH  SUBDIVISION,  AND  (II) THE AUTHORITY MAKES A CERTIFICATION TO THE
 COUNTY SETTING FORTH REVENUE ESTIMATES AGREED TO  BY  THE  AUTHORITY  IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH SUCH DETERMINATION, THE SALARY ADJUSTMENTS ACCORDING TO
 PLAN AND STEP-UPS OR INCREMENTS SHALL NOT BE SUSPENDED FOR EACH YEAR  IN
 WHICH  THE FOUR YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN HAS BEEN CERTIFIED. For the purposes
 of computing the pension base of retirement  allowances,  any  suspended
 salary  or  wage increases and any suspended other payments shall not be
 considered as part of compensation or final compensation  or  of  annual
 salary  earned  or  earnable. The suspensions authorized hereunder shall
 continue until one year after the date of the order and, to  the  extent
 of  any  determination  of  the  authority  that  a continuation of such
 suspensions, to a date specified by the authority, is necessary in order
 to achieve the objectives of the financial plan, such suspensions  shall
 be continued to the date specified by the authority, which date shall in
 no  event  be later than the end of the interim finance period, provided
 that such suspensions shall terminate with respect to employees who have
 agreed to a deferral of salary or wage increase upon  the  certification
 of  the  agreement  by  the  authority pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
 subdivision.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after October 1, 2016.