Bill Text: NY A01645 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to compensation of certain district attorneys; requires the state to reimburse the counties for the entire cost of any increase in the annual salary of a district attorney due to an increase in the annual salary of a justice of the supreme court or a county judge; appropriates $1,600,000 therefor.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - held for consideration in ways and means [A01645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01645-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1645
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, FINCH, GOODELL, OAKS, McDONOUGH, BLANKEN-
          BUSH,  McLAUGHLIN,  RAIA,  GIGLIO  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A.
          THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the  judiciary  law,  in  relation  to  compensation  of
          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. Section 183-a of the judiciary law, as amended  by  chapter
     2  1049 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  183-a.  Compensation of certain district attorneys. Notwithstanding
     4  any other provision of law, the district attorney of each county  having
     5  a  population  of  more than five hundred thousand according to the last
     6  federal census, exclusive of the counties of  New  York,  Bronx,  Kings,
     7  Queens  and  Richmond, shall receive an annual salary equivalent to that
     8  of a justice of the state supreme court together  with  such  additional
     9  compensation as the legislative body of such county may provide by local
    10  law.  Further,  that the district attorney of each county having a popu-
    11  lation of more than one hundred thousand  and  less  than  five  hundred
    12  thousand  according  to the last federal census, exclusive of the county
    13  of Richmond, and the district attorney  of  any  county,  the  board  of
    14  supervisors  of which has designated such office as a full-time position
    15  pursuant to subdivision eight of section seven  hundred  of  the  county
    16  law,  shall  receive an annual salary equivalent to that of county judge
    17  in the county in which the district attorney is  elected  or  appointed,
    18  together  with  such  additional compensation as the legislative body of
    19  such county may provide by local law.  The  state  shall  reimburse  the
    20  counties  for  the entire cost of any increase in the annual salary of a
    21  district attorney due to an increase in the annual salary of  a  justice
    22  of the supreme court or a county judge.
    23    §  2. The sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000)
    24  is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in  the  general  fund  of  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01342-01-7
        A. 1645                             2
     1  state treasury to the credit of the state purposes account not otherwise
     2  appropriated,  for reimbursement to counties resulting from the increase
     3  in salaries decided upon by the New York state  commission  on  legisla-
     4  tive, judicial & executive compensation.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.