Bill Text: NY S01550 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Forfeits per diem payments to members of the legislature when the budget is not passed by April 1.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 1550A [S01550 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01550-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1550--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to eliminating per diem payments to members of the legislature when the legislature has not passed a budget by the first day of the fiscal year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 5 of the legislative law, as added 2 by section 7 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 2. (a) Each member of the legislature, upon verification of attend- 5 ance, which shall be by electronic verification when practicable, in 6 compliance with the policies set forth by the speaker of the assembly 7 and the temporary president of the senate for their respective bodies, 8 shall be eligible to receive payment of actual and necessary travel 9 expenses and a per diem equivalent to the most recent federal per diem 10 rates published by the general services administration as set forth in 11 41 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Part 301, App. A, for the time in 12 which the member was in travel status in the performance of his or her 13 duties during the months in which the legislature is scheduled to be in 14 regular session, provided, however, that if legislative passage of the 15 budget, as defined in subdivision three of this section, has not 16 occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year, any such per diem 17 payments to be paid on or after such day shall be permanently forfeited 18 by such members from the first day of the fiscal year until the day that 19 the legislature passes the budget. Members shall be eligible to receive 20 per diem payments for any days worked after such passage. During the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03193-02-6
