Bill Text: NY A06321 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the legislature from voting upon legislation that would adjust the salary or benefits of members of the legislature, after a general election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A06321 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06321-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6321 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOHNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to limiting passage of legislation impacting salaries and benefits of 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. Section 5 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. Any adjustment to the salary of a member of the legislature shall 4 not be voted upon between the general election day and December thirty- 5 first, both such days inclusive, in any year in which members are 6 elected to the legislature. 7 § 2. Section 5-a of the legislative law is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 9 1-a. Any adjustment to the benefits of a member of either house of the 10 legislature shall not be voted upon between the general election day and 11 December thirty-first, both such days inclusive, in any year in which 12 members are elected to the legislature. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07898-02-9
