STATE OF NEW YORK
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9825
IN ASSEMBLY
April 13, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. D. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to salaries of members
when a budget is not passed on time
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] by April first or the first session day following April
11 first should April first fall on a non-session day, the net amount of
12 any such bi-weekly salary installment payments to be paid on or after
13 such day shall be withheld [and not paid until such legislative passage
14 of the budget has occurred whereupon bi-weekly salary installment
15 payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued, withheld] and
16 unpaid [installments shall be promptly paid to each member]. Such
17 bi-weekly payments shall resume upon passage of the budget, provided,
18 however, any missed payments shall not be paid retroactively.
19 For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
20 any or all of the following deductions: federal taxes, state taxes,
21 social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
22 ment contributions, contributions to health insurance or other group
23 insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14325-03-2
