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Senate Bill S9278

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Reduces the salary of members of the state legislature and provides that the regular legislative session shall end by March 31 annually

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2021-S9278 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Ethics And Internal Governance
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, add Art 1-B §1-aa, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: S2637
2025-2026: S7268

2021-S9278 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces the salary of members of the state legislature; provides that the regular legislative session shall end by March 31 annually.

2021-S9278 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9278 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9278
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
   nance
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to reducing the  salary
   of  members  of  the  state legislature and providing that the regular
   legislative session shall end by March 31 annually

   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 TWENTY-THREE, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary
 of [seventy-nine] FORTY-EIGHT 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 bi-weekly  salary  install-
 ment  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. The legislative law is amended by adding a  new  article  1-B  to
 read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 1-B
                       LEGISLATIVE SESSION CALENDAR
 SECTION 1-AA. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION CALENDAR.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15851-01-2

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