Bill Text: NY A10152 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Relates to the payment of salaries for certain district attorneys; requires the state to provide state aid to pay such salaries; and appropriates $1,600,000 therefor.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-17 - print number 10152a [A10152 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10152-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                        10152--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 13, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, LUPARDO, WOERNER, RUSSELL, NOJAY -- read
          once  and  referred  to  the  Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the payment  of  salaries
          for 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. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 11 of section 700 of the coun-
     2  ty law, as amended by section 1 of part E of chapter 412 of the laws  of
     3  1999, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  Commencing  with the nineteen hundred eighty-seven calendar year,
     5  the comptroller shall annually determine the amount of state aid payable
     6  to each county pursuant to paragraphs (a) [and], (b) and (d) hereof  for
     7  each calendar year and shall pay such amount on his audit and warrant to
     8  the chief fiscal officer of each such county during the month of Septem-
     9  ber  in  each  such year. Where a county first becomes entitled to state
    10  aid pursuant to paragraphs (a) [and], (b) and (d) hereof on a day  other
    11  than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine or January first of any
    12  other year thereafter, the amount of state aid payable to such county in
    13  the  year  it first becomes entitled to such state aid shall be prorated
    14  accordingly.
    15    § 2. Subdivision 11 of section 700 of the county  law  is  amended  by
    16  adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    17    (d) In addition to the state aid provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
    18  this  subdivision,  each  county, the salary of the district attorney of
    19  which is determined pursuant to section one  hundred  eighty-three-a  of
    20  the  judiciary law, shall be entitled to receive state aid in the amount
    21  of one hundred percent of the difference between the amount required  to
    22  be paid to such district attorney pursuant to section one hundred eight-
    23  y-three-a  of  the  judiciary law on and after April first, two thousand
    24  sixteen and the amount required to be  paid  pursuant  to  such  section
    25  immediately prior to such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15165-03-6
        A. 10152--A                         2
     1    § 3. The sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000),
     2  or  so  much  thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the
     3  department of audit and control out of any moneys in the state  treasury
     4  in  the  general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not
     5  otherwise  appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose
     6  of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
     7  on the audit and warrant of the comptroller to the chief fiscal  officer
     8  of each such county as prescribed by law.
     9    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.