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Senate Bill S1608

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for the increase in the annual salary of members of the legislature commencing on January 1, 2019

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2017-S1608 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5933
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Leg L

2017-S1608 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the increase in the annual salary of members of the legislature, commencing on January 1, 2019, in an amount equal to the increase in the value of $79,500 based on the rate of inflation between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2018.

2017-S1608 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1608 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1608
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to compensation payable
   to members of the state legislature

   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 NINETEEN, each member of the legislature shall receive [a] AN ANNU-
 AL salary IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE INCREASE IN THE  VALUE  of  seventy-
 nine  thousand  five  hundred dollars [per annum] BETWEEN JANUARY FIRST,
 NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE AND  DECEMBER  THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
 EIGHTEEN,  BASED  ON  THE  RATE OF INFLATION ESTABLISHED BY THE CONSUMER
 PRICE INDEX AS CALCULATED BY THE FEDERAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR.    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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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