Bill Text: NY C00243 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Fixes the salaries of the governor and the lieutenant-governor
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-31 - returned to senate [C00243 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-C00243-Introduced.html
Senate Resolution No. 958 BY: Senator STEWART-COUSINS CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY fixing the salaries of the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor pursuant to sections 3 and 6 of article 4 of the Constitution of the State of New York WHEREAS, The salaries of the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor were last increased to take effect in nineteen hundred ninety-nine; and WHEREAS, The salaries of other state officials and employees have been fixed at levels which exceed or closely approach the salaries of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, (if the &HOUSE concur), That effective January first, two thousand nineteen the salary of the office of Governor shall be fixed at two hundred thousand dollars per annum and the salary of the office of the Lieutenant-Governor shall be fixed at one hundred ninety thousand dollars per annum; and be it further RESOLVED, That effective January first, two thousand twenty the salary of the office of Governor shall be fixed at two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars per annum and the salary of the office of Lieutenant-Governor shall be fixed at two hundred ten thousand dollars per annum, provided such increase shall be conditioned upon the timely legislative passage of the budget for the preceding year, as defined in part HHH of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018; and be it further RESOLVED, That effective January first, two thousand twenty-one the salary of the office of Governor shall be fixed at two hundred fifty thousand dollars per annum and the salary of the office of Lieutenant-Governor shall be fixed at two hundred twenty thousand dollars per annum, provided such increase shall be conditioned upon the timely legislative passage of the budget for the preceding year, as defined in part HHH of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018.