Bill Text: NY A05933 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5933 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for the increase in the annual salary of members of the legislature, commencing on January 1, 2019, in an amount equal to the increase in the value of $79,500 based on the rate of inflation between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05933 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05933-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5933
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 17, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to compensation payable
          to members of the state legislature
          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]  two  thou-
     5  sand nineteen, each member of the legislature shall receive [a] an annu-
     6  al  salary  in  an amount equal to the increase in the value of seventy-
     7  nine thousand five hundred dollars [per annum]  between  January  first,
     8  nineteen  hundred  ninety-nine  and  December thirty-first, two thousand
     9  eighteen, based on the rate of inflation  established  by  the  consumer
    10  price  index  as  calculated  by  the federal Department of Labor.  Such
    11  salary of a member of the legislature shall  be  payable  in  twenty-six
    12  bi-weekly installments provided, however, that if legislative passage of
    13  the  budget  as  defined  in  subdivision  three of this section has not
    14  occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year, the  net  amount  of
    15  any  such  bi-weekly  salary installment payments to be paid on or after
    16  such day shall be withheld and not paid until such  legislative  passage
    17  of  the  budget  has  occurred  whereupon  bi-weekly  salary installment
    18  payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued,  withheld  and
    19  unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
    20    For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
    21  any  or  all  of  the  following deductions: federal taxes, state taxes,
    22  social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
    23  ment contributions, contributions to health  insurance  or  other  group
    24  insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07436-01-7