Bill Text: NY S07764 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to salary increases for heads of police departments of municipalities, districts or authorities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-12 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S07764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07764-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7764
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, relating to salary  increases
          for  heads  of  police  departments  of  municipalities,  districts or
          authorities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 207-m to read as follows:
     3    § 207-m. Salary increases for heads of police departments  of  munici-
     4  palities, districts or authorities. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of
     5  any  general, special or local law or administrative code to the contra-
     6  ry, and except in police departments which employ five hundred  seventy-
     7  five  or more permanent sworn police personnel, whenever the base salary
     8  or other compensation of the permanent full-time police officer who is a
     9  member of a negotiating unit and who is the highest ranking  subordinate
    10  to  the  head  of  the police department in such unit, is increased, the
    11  salary, as defined in subdivision two of this section, of the  permanent
    12  full-time  head  of the police department shall be increased by at least
    13  the same dollar amount of the base salary increase received by such next
    14  subordinate police officer, and the other compensation,  as  defined  in
    15  subdivision  two of this section, of the permanent full-time head of the
    16  police department shall be increased to the same  extent  and  with  the
    17  same  conditions as the other compensation received by the next subordi-
    18  nate police officer in the event that such subordinate  officer's  other
    19  compensation  is  increased.    The provisions of this section shall not
    20  apply to any head of a police department who is a member of a collective
    21  negotiating unit established pursuant to article fourteen of  the  civil
    22  service law.
    23    2.  For the purposes of this section, salary shall mean fixed periodic
    24  compensation payable by an employer to or for the account of the employ-
    25  ee for personal services rendered by such employee;  other  compensation
    26  shall  mean  all other forms of benefits which are credited to employees
    27  as a term of employment, which shall specifically include,  but  not  be
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  limited to, employer contribution to or payments of insurance or welfare
     2  benefits  and  employer contributions to pension or annuity funds. Over-
     3  time, holiday and shift differential pay  shall  not  be  considered  as
     4  salary or other compensation unless by resolution, ordinance, special or
     5  local  law  the  municipality,  district  or authority elects to include
     6  these items of compensation within the employment benefit package of the
     7  permanent full-time head of the police department.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.