Bill Text: NY A05361 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits members of the legislature from receiving certain income and establishes the commission on legislative compensation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - print number 5361a [A05361 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05361-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5361--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. LAVINE, COOK, RAIA, LAWRENCE, MAYER -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M.  of A. BUTLER, CROUCH,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  THIELE  --
          read  once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
          recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to prohibiting  members
          of  the legislature from receiving certain income and establishing the
          commission on legislative compensation
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The legislative law is amended by adding two new sections
     2  5-b and 5-c to read as follows:
     3    § 5-b. Prohibition on outside earned income for members. 1.   Starting
     4  in calendar year two thousand seventeen, a member of the legislature may
     5  not  have  outside earned income attributable to such year which exceeds
     6  fifteen percent of the gross annual salary of members  of  the  legisla-
     7  ture, pursuant to section five of this article.
     8    2.  a.  For  the  purposes  of  this section, the term "outside earned
     9  income" includes, but is not limited  to,  wages,  salaries,  fees,  and
    10  other forms of compensation for services actually rendered.
    11    b.  For the purposes of this section, the term "outside earned income"
    12  does not include:
    13    (1) salary, benefits, and allowances paid by New York state;
    14    (2) income attributable to  service  with  the  military  reserves  or
    15  national guard;
    16    (3) income from pensions and other continuing benefits attributable to
    17  previous employment or services;
    18    (4) income from investment activities, where the member's services are
    19  not a material factor in the production of income;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01499-03-6