Bill Text: NY S05894 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires approval by voters of any recommendations of the compensation committee to determine the appropriate salaries for members of the legislature and certain other state officials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S05894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05894-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5894

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT relating to requiring the approval of the voters of the recommen-
          dation of the compensation committee

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

     1    Section  1.  a.  Notwithstanding  any  contrary  provision of law, any
     2  recommendations made to implement a determination  pursuant  to  section
     3  two  of  part  HHH of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, relating to estab-
     4  lishing a compensation committee to determine the  appropriate  salaries
     5  for  members of the legislature and certain other state officials, shall
     6  not have the  force  of  law,  nor  shall  they  supersede  inconsistent
     7  provisions  of section 169 of the executive law or sections 5 and 5-a of
     8  the legislative law, unless such recommendations have first passed by  a
     9  majority  of  electors  of the state voting on the measure state-wide in
    10  the next general election held at least one hundred eight days after any
    11  such recommendations.
    12    b. At least ninety days prior to a general election pursuant to subdi-
    13  vision a of this section, the attorney general of the state of New  York
    14  shall  prepare  a  title  and summary for the measure, not to exceed one
    15  hundred words, which shall appear on the ballot  and  shall  give  indi-
    16  cation of support or opposition to such measure.
    17    c.  Any action or proceeding which challenges the title and summary of
    18  such measure prepared by the attorney general as failing  to  accurately
    19  describe  such measure, shall be heard in the supreme court of the state
    20  and preferred over all other civil causes in all courts of the state and
    21  shall be heard and determined in preference to all the other civil busi-
    22  ness pending therein. No  action  or  proceeding  which  challenges  any
    23  action  or  inaction  by  the  attorney  general respecting the title or
    24  summary of such measure may be  brought more than  fourteen  days  after
    25  action by the attorney general pursuant to subdivision b of this section

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11815-01-9
        S. 5894                             2

     1  or,  if  the  attorney general fails to act, no later than fourteen days
     2  after the deadline for such action pursuant to such subdivision b.
     3    d. A measure approved by a majority of votes thereon shall take effect
     4  on  the  first  of January next succeeding the general election, or five
     5  days after the date of the official declaration of the vote by the state
     6  board of elections, whichever is later.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.