Requires when the legislative budget is overdue that the members of the legislature shall have their compensation and allowances withheld and not paid until the date the final bi-weekly salary installment payment of the year is due and then an amount equal to the accrued, withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3332
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO -- 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 5 of the legislative law, as
2 amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, each member
5 of the legislature shall receive a salary of seventy-nine thousand five
6 hundred dollars per annum. Such salary of a member of the legislature
7 shall be payable in twenty-six bi-weekly installments provided, however,
8 that if legislative passage of the budget as defined in subdivision
9 three of this section has not occurred prior to the first day of any
10 fiscal year, the net amount of any such bi-weekly salary installment
11 payments to be paid on or after such day shall be withheld and not paid
12 until [such legislative passage of the budget has occurred whereupon]
13 the date the final bi-weekly salary installment [payments shall resume]
14 payment of the year is due and then an amount equal to the accrued,
15 withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
16 For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
17 any or all of the following deductions: federal taxes, state taxes,
18 social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
19 ment contributions, contributions to health insurance or other group
20 insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
21 § 2. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 5-a of the legislative
22 law, as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
23 follows:
24 c. If legislative passage of the budget as defined in subdivision
25 three of section five of this article has not occurred prior to the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 first day of any fiscal year, the net amount of any allowances author-
2 ized pursuant to this section to be paid on or after such date shall be
3 withheld and not paid until [such legislative passage of the budget has
4 occurred] the date the final bi-weekly salary installment payment of the
5 year is due whereupon the payment of such allowances in an amount equal
6 to the withheld and unpaid payments shall be paid pursuant to paragraph
7 b of this subdivision.
8 For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
9 any or all of the following deductions: federal taxes, state taxes,
10 social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
11 ment contributions, contributions to health insurance or other group
12 insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
