Prohibits the legislature from increasing the salary or allowance payable to members of the legislature by a law enacted during the period running from the date of the general election until 12/31 in any year in which members are elected to the legislature.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2209
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to limiting passage of
laws increasing salaries and allowances of members of the state legis-
lature
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. The salary of a member of the legislature shall not be increased by
4 a law enacted 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. The allowance of a member of either house of the legislature
10 shall not be increased by a law enacted between the general election day
11 and December thirty-first, both such days inclusive, in any year in
12 which 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.
LBD06181-01-9
