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Senate Bill S4320

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature

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2017-S4320 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§5 & 5-a, Leg L

2017-S4320 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires when the legislative budget is overdue that the members of the legislature shall have their compensation and allowances withheld and not paid until the date the final bi-weekly salary installment payment of the year is due and then an amount equal to the accrued, withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.

2017-S4320 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4320 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4320
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- 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  the  payment  of
   compensation and allowances 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, each  member
 of  the legislature shall receive a salary of seventy-nine thousand five
 hundred 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]
 THE DATE THE FINAL bi-weekly salary installment [payments shall  resume]
 PAYMENT  OF  THE  YEAR  IS  DUE and THEN 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. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 5-a  of  the  legislative
 law,  as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
 follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06369-01-7

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