Provides that in years where a pay period occurs on January first of such year, the salaries of members of the legislature shall be payable in twenty-seven bi-weekly payments.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A2678
SPONSOR: Magnarelli TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to compensation of
members of the legislature
PURPOSE:
This bill corrects an oversight in the Legislative Law to allow State
Legislators to receive regular pay on January 18t in years where the
final day of the pay period ends on January 15t.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends Section 5 of the Legislative Law to add the follow-
ing language to allow legislators to receive 27 bi-weekly payments in
years where the final pay period of the year ends on January 1st.
Section 2: Effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Every decade or so, the final pay period of the year for legislators
falls on January 1st. Due to the current law only authorizing twenty-six
biweekly payments, this causes a delay in the processing of payments.
This change will allow the legislature to maintain a normal pay schedule
for members in these years and make payment processing easier for
payroll staff.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None. This bill does not change the salary for legislators.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2678
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to compensation of
members of the legislature
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 5 of the
2 legislative law, as amended by chapter 841 of the laws of 2022, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 Effective January first, two thousand twenty-three, each member of the
5 legislature shall receive a salary of one hundred forty-two thousand
6 dollars per annum. Such salary of a member of the legislature shall be
7 payable in twenty-six bi-weekly installments provided, however, that if
8 legislative passage of the budget as defined in subdivision three of
9 this section has not occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year,
10 the net amount of any such bi-weekly salary installment payments to be
11 paid on or after such day shall be withheld and not paid until such
12 legislative passage of the budget has occurred whereupon bi-weekly sala-
13 ry installment payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued,
14 withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
15 However, in years where a pay period occurs on January first of a given
16 year, members' salaries shall be payable in twenty-seven bi-weekly
17 payments.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03631-01-5
