Bill Text: NY S01320 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires an equal distribution of legislative staff and appropriations to be made among all members of the legislature; provides for additional funds and staff for members in special capacities as long as such additional staff does not deal with constituent services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01320-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1320
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring  an  equal
          apportionment of resources and staff for members of the legislature
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section  5-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  5-b.  Apportionment  of  resources  and  staff to assist individual
     4  members. 1. From within the amount generally appropriated to fund  staff
     5  positions for members of the legislature within such house of the legis-
     6  lature, each member shall receive an identical amount to be utilized for
     7  such  member's personal staff, both in such member's Albany and district
     8  legislative office or offices.
     9    2. Where because of the demands of a member's position as  an  officer
    10  of  the  house or the duties in a special capacity, additional funds may
    11  be made available for staff to service those needs; however  such  staff
    12  shall  not  be  personally  involved  in  duties  otherwise related to a
    13  member's constituent service.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06180-01-9