Senate Bill S2637

2023-2024 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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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Ethics And Internal Governance Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S2637 (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 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9278

2023-S2637 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S2637 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2637 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2637
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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,  the  opening  paragraph  as
 amended  by  chapter  841  of  the  laws  of 2022, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Effective January first, two thousand  [twenty-three]  TWENTY-FOUR,
 each  member  of  the legislature shall receive a salary of [one hundred
 forty-two] FORTY-EIGHT 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 budg-
 et 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. The legislative law is amended by adding a  new  article  1-B  to
 read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05587-01-3

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