Bill Text: NY S00519 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the payment of salaries for certain district attorneys; requires the state to provide state aid to pay such salaries; and appropriates $1,600,000 therefor.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-24 - PRINT NUMBER 519A [S00519 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00519-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         519--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, AKSHAR, AVELLA, BONACIC, CARLUCCI, DeFRANCIS-
          CO,  FUNKE,  GALLIVAN,  GRIFFO,  KENNEDY,  LARKIN,  LITTLE, MARCHIONE,
          MURPHY, O'MARA, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, SERINO, SEWARD, VALESKY --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the county law, in relation to the payment of salaries
          for certain district attorneys; and making an appropriation therefor
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 11 of section 700 of the coun-
     2  ty  law, as amended by section 1 of part E of chapter 412 of the laws of
     3  1999, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) Commencing with the nineteen hundred eighty-seven  calendar  year,
     5  the comptroller shall annually determine the amount of state aid payable
     6  to  each county pursuant to paragraphs (a) [and], (b) and (d) hereof for
     7  each calendar year and shall pay such amount on his audit and warrant to
     8  the chief fiscal officer of each such county during the month of Septem-
     9  ber in each such year. Where a county first becomes  entitled  to  state
    10  aid  pursuant to paragraphs (a) [and], (b) and (d) hereof on a day other
    11  than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine or January first of any
    12  other year thereafter, the amount of state aid payable to such county in
    13  the year it first becomes entitled to such state aid shall  be  prorated
    14  accordingly.
    15    §  2.  Subdivision  11  of section 700 of the county law is amended by
    16  adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    17    (d) In addition to the state aid provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
    18  this subdivision, each county, the salary of the  district  attorney  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  which  is  determined  pursuant to section one hundred eighty-three-a of
     2  the judiciary law, shall be entitled to receive state aid in the  amount
     3  of  one hundred percent of the difference between the amount required to
     4  be paid to such district attorney pursuant to section one hundred eight-
     5  y-three-a  of  the  judiciary law on and after April first, two thousand
     6  eighteen and the amount required to be paid  pursuant  to  such  section
     7  immediately prior to such date.
     8    § 3. The sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000),
     9  or  so  much  thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the
    10  department of audit and control out of any moneys in the state  treasury
    11  in  the  general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not
    12  otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the  purpose
    13  of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
    14  on  the audit and warrant of the comptroller to the chief fiscal officer
    15  of each such county as prescribed by law.
    16    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.