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Assembly Bill A11446

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the compensation of members of the legislature

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2025-A11446 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Leg L

2025-A11446 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that if the governor introduces policy issues into budget negotiations anytime after the release of the proposed thirty day amendments, members of the legislature shall resume receiving bi-weekly installment payments.

2025-A11446 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11446
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 18, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Levenberg)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the compensation  of
   members of the legislature
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 5 of  the
 legislative  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  841 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   Effective January first, two thousand twenty-three, each member of the
 legislature shall receive a salary of  one  hundred  forty-two  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  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 sala-
 ry installment payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued,
 withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each  member.
 NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO THE CONTRARY, IF THE
 GOVERNOR PUTS FORTH ANY NEW POLICY ISSUES NOT IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET  OR
 IN  THE  THIRTY-DAY  AMENDMENTS  TO  THE PROPOSED BUDGET, SUCH BI-WEEKLY
 SALARY INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS TO MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE  SHALL  RESUME
 AT  AN  AMOUNT  EQUAL  TO  THE ACCRUED, WITHHELD AND UNPAID INSTALLMENTS
 SHALL BE PROMPTLY PAID TO EACH MEMBER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15670-02-6

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