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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 18, 2026
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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:
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 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if the
16 governor puts forth any new policy issues not in the proposed budget or
17 in the thirty-day amendments to the proposed budget, such bi-weekly
18 salary installment payments to members of the legislature shall resume
19 at an amount equal to the accrued, withheld and unpaid installments
20 shall be promptly paid to each member.
21 § 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
