Prohibits the legislature from voting upon legislation that would adjust the salary or benefits of members of the legislature, after a general election.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6321
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JOHNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to limiting passage of
legislation impacting salaries and benefits of 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. Section 5 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Any adjustment to the salary of a member of the legislature shall
4 not be voted upon between the general election day and December thirty-
5 first, both such days inclusive, in any year in which members are
6 elected to the legislature.
7 § 2. Section 5-a of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
8 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
9 1-a. Any adjustment to the benefits of a member of either house of the
10 legislature shall not be voted upon between the general election day and
11 December thirty-first, both such days inclusive, in any year in which
12 members are elected to the legislature.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07898-02-9
