Provides that bi-weekly salary installment payments and allowances shall not be withheld for members of the state legislature if the governor has submitted certain legislation which is not necessary for the effective implementation of the appropriation bill or bills and legislative passage of the budget has not occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7764
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HEASTIE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental 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, 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, 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 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, SUCH BI-WEEKLY
SALARY INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS SHALL NOT BE WITHHELD PURSUANT TO THIS
SECTION IF THE GOVERNOR HAS SUBMITTED LEGISLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION
THREE OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION WHICH IS NOT NECESSARY
FOR THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL OR BILLS AND
LEGISLATIVE PASSAGE OF THE BUDGET HAS NOT OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE FIRST
DAY OF ANY FISCAL YEAR.
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-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11598-01-5
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