Requires approval by voters of any recommendations of the compensation committee to determine the appropriate salaries for members of the legislature and certain other state officials.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5894
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT relating to requiring the approval of the voters of the recommen-
dation of the compensation committee
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. a. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, any
2 recommendations made to implement a determination pursuant to section
3 two of part HHH of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, relating to estab-
4 lishing a compensation committee to determine the appropriate salaries
5 for members of the legislature and certain other state officials, shall
6 not have the force of law, nor shall they supersede inconsistent
7 provisions of section 169 of the executive law or sections 5 and 5-a of
8 the legislative law, unless such recommendations have first passed by a
9 majority of electors of the state voting on the measure state-wide in
10 the next general election held at least one hundred eight days after any
11 such recommendations.
12 b. At least ninety days prior to a general election pursuant to subdi-
13 vision a of this section, the attorney general of the state of New York
14 shall prepare a title and summary for the measure, not to exceed one
15 hundred words, which shall appear on the ballot and shall give indi-
16 cation of support or opposition to such measure.
17 c. Any action or proceeding which challenges the title and summary of
18 such measure prepared by the attorney general as failing to accurately
19 describe such measure, shall be heard in the supreme court of the state
20 and preferred over all other civil causes in all courts of the state and
21 shall be heard and determined in preference to all the other civil busi-
22 ness pending therein. No action or proceeding which challenges any
23 action or inaction by the attorney general respecting the title or
24 summary of such measure may be brought more than fourteen days after
25 action by the attorney general pursuant to subdivision b of this section
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 or, if the attorney general fails to act, no later than fourteen days
2 after the deadline for such action pursuant to such subdivision b.
3 d. A measure approved by a majority of votes thereon shall take effect
4 on the first of January next succeeding the general election, or five
5 days after the date of the official declaration of the vote by the state
6 board of elections, whichever is later.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
