Assembly Bill A5933

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for the increase in the annual salary of members of the legislature commencing on January 1, 2019

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5933 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1608
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Leg L

2017-A5933 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the increase in the annual salary of members of the legislature, commencing on January 1, 2019, in an amount equal to the increase in the value of $79,500 based on the rate of inflation between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2018.

2017-A5933 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5933
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to compensation payable
   to members of the state legislature
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  5  of  the  legislative  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  635  of  the  laws  of 1998, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Effective January first, [nineteen hundred ninety-nine]  TWO  THOU-
 SAND NINETEEN, each member of the legislature shall receive [a] AN ANNU-
 AL  salary  IN  AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE INCREASE IN THE VALUE of seventy-
 nine thousand five hundred dollars [per annum]  BETWEEN  JANUARY  FIRST,
 NINETEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE  AND  DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
 EIGHTEEN, BASED ON THE RATE OF INFLATION  ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  CONSUMER
 PRICE  INDEX  AS  CALCULATED  BY  THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.  Such
 salary of a member of the legislature shall  be  payable  in  twenty-six
 bi-weekly installments provided, however, that if legislative passage of
 the  budget  as  defined  in  subdivision  three of this section has not
 occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year, the  net  amount  of
 any  such  bi-weekly  salary installment payments to be paid on or after
 such day shall be withheld and not paid until such  legislative  passage
 of  the  budget  has  occurred  whereupon  bi-weekly  salary installment
 payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued,  withheld  and
 unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
   For purposes of this section, net amount shall mean gross salary minus
 any  or  all  of  the  following deductions: federal taxes, state taxes,
 social security taxes, city taxes, payments on retirement loans, retire-
 ment contributions, contributions to health  insurance  or  other  group
 insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
   § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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