Bill Text: NY A06782 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to reducing the salary for members of the legislature by ten percent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-13 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A06782 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06782-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6782
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 18, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to reducing legislative
         salaries
         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 FOURTEEN, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary  of
    6  [seventy-nine  thousand  five hundred] SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
    7  FIFTY dollars per annum. Such salary of  a  member  of  the  legislature
    8  shall be payable in twenty-six bi-weekly installments provided, however,
    9  that  if  legislative  passage  of  the budget as defined in subdivision
   10  three of this section has not occurred prior to the  first  day  of  any
   11  fiscal  year,  the  net  amount of any such bi-weekly salary installment
   12  payments to be paid on or after such day shall be withheld and not  paid
   13  until  such  legislative  passage  of  the budget has occurred whereupon
   14  bi-weekly salary installment payments shall resume and an  amount  equal
   15  to  the accrued, withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid
   16  to each member.
   17    For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
   18  any or all of the following  deductions:  federal  taxes,  state  taxes,
   19  social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
   20  ment  contributions,  contributions  to  health insurance or other group
   21  insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2014.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08370-02-3