Bill Text: NY A10197 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the annual maintenance allowance received by employees of the unified court system who are required to wear an employer-approved blazer; categorizes such allowance as compensation for retirement purposes, rather than part of the employee's basic annual salary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - reported referred to ways and means [A10197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10197-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10197

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lavine) --
          (at request of the Office of Court Administration) --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT  to  amend  chapter  1 of the laws of 2023 relating to terms and
          conditions of employment of certain nonjudicial officers and employees
          of the unified court system and amending chapter 400 of  the  laws  of
          2014  relating to terms and conditions of employment of certain nonju-
          dicial officers and employees of the unified court system, relating to
          annual longevity payments for certain employees, in  relation  to  the
          annual maintenance allowance received by employees who are required to
          wear an employer-approved blazer

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Chapter 1 of the laws of 2023 relating to terms and  condi-
     2  tions of employment of certain nonjudicial officers and employees of the
     3  unified court system and amending chapter 400 of the laws of 2014 relat-
     4  ing  to  terms and conditions of employment of certain nonjudicial offi-
     5  cers and employees of the  unified  court  system,  relating  to  annual
     6  longevity  payments  for  certain  employees, is amended by adding a new
     7  section 8-b to read as follows:
     8    § 8-b. Where a nonjudicial officer or employee of  the  unified  court
     9  system to whom the provisions of section three or four of this act apply
    10  is  required  to  wear  an employer-approved blazer while performing the
    11  duties of his or her position and, on account thereof,  is  entitled  to
    12  receive  an  annual  maintenance  allowance  pursuant  to  a  collective
    13  bargaining agreement between the unified court system  and  an  employee
    14  organization  representing  such  nonjudicial  officer or employee, such
    15  allowance shall not be a part of such employee's basic annual salary but
    16  shall be included as compensation for retirement purposes.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    18  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2021.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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