Bill Text: NY A07988 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires approval of the salary plan for the chancellors, presidents and senior staffs of the state university of New York and the city university of New York by the chairs of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee and the director of the budget.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A07988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07988-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7988

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring approval of
          the salary plan for the chancellors, presidents and senior  staffs  of
          the state university of New York and the city university of New York

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 169 of the executive law, as added
     2  by chapter 263 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section  or  any  other
     4  provision  of law, the boards of trustees of the state university of New
     5  York and the city university of New York shall each establish and imple-
     6  ment salary plans for the chancellors, presidents and senior  staffs  of
     7  such  state  and  city  universities, respectively. The board of regents
     8  shall establish and implement a separate salary plan for  the  president
     9  of  the  university  of the state of New York, setting forth the compen-
    10  sation to be received by the president for performing the duties of that
    11  office assigned by the rules of the regents or statute, which  shall  be
    12  in  addition to the compensation received by such person pursuant to the
    13  provisions of subdivisions one and two of this  section.    Such  salary
    14  plans  shall  be developed after consultation with the governor's office
    15  of employee relations and the division of the budget.   Any increase  in
    16  compensation for the positions set forth in this subdivision, not other-
    17  wise  funded  from any appropriation, shall be funded from reallocations
    18  of funds within the appropriations specifically identified by the afore-
    19  mentioned boards. Each board of trustees and the board of regents  shall
    20  file a proposed salary plan report with the chairs of the senate finance
    21  committee  and the assembly ways and means committee and the director of
    22  the budget at least [sixty] ninety days prior to the proposed  effective
    23  date  of  such salary plan. Each salary plan shall not take effect until
    24  the salary plan report is approved by the chairs of the  senate  finance

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10587-01-3

        A. 7988                             2

     1  committee  and the assembly ways and means committee and the director of
     2  the budget. Each salary plan report shall set forth the salary schedule,
     3  the dollar value of additional public compensation and other  employment
     4  benefits  that  such  positions  would  receive, the specific sources of
     5  funding to be reallocated for salary increases, the amount  of  increase
     6  to be provided to each position, the comparison salary data on which the
     7  plan  is based, and such other information as the boards of trustees and
     8  the board of regents deem appropriate.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.
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