Bill Text: NY S00595 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to freezing per diems for legislators with secondary incomes exceeding 20 percent of their legislative salaries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 595A [S00595 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00595-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 595--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to freezing per diems for legislators with secondary incomes exceeding 20 percent of their legislative salaries The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 5 of the legisla- 2 tive law, as amended by section 7 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws 3 of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Each member of the legislature, upon verification of attendance, 5 which shall be by electronic verification when practicable, in compli- 6 ance with the policies set forth by the speaker of the assembly and the 7 temporary president of the senate for their respective bodies, shall be 8 eligible to receive payment of actual and necessary travel expenses and 9 a per diem equivalent to the most recent federal per diem rates 10 published by the general services administration as set forth in 41 CFR 11 (Code of Federal Regulations) Part 301, App. A, for the time in which 12 the member was in travel status in the performance of his or her duties 13 during the months in which the legislature is scheduled to be in regular 14 session. During the months when the legislature is not scheduled to be 15 in regular session, members shall receive such actual and necessary 16 travel expenses and per diems, in compliance with verification policies 17 and in accord with standards and limits for reimbursable events set 18 forth by the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the 19 senate for their respective bodies. The per diem allowances including EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06910-02-6
