Bill Text: NY A09825 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to salaries of members when a budget is not passed on time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-13 - referred to governmental operations [A09825 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09825-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9825
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    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    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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