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                                   7764
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 9, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. HEASTIE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law,  in  relation  to  the  payment  of
   compensation and allowances 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, the opening paragraph as
 amended by chapter 841 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Effective January first, two thousand twenty-three, each member of
 the legislature shall receive a salary of one hundred forty-two thousand
 dollars per annum. 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 sala-
 ry installment payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued,
 withheld  and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
 NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  SUCH  BI-WEEKLY
 SALARY  INSTALLMENT  PAYMENTS  SHALL  NOT  BE  WITHHELD PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION IF THE GOVERNOR HAS SUBMITTED LEGISLATION  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
 THREE  OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION WHICH IS NOT NECESSARY
 FOR THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL OR BILLS  AND
 LEGISLATIVE  PASSAGE  OF  THE BUDGET HAS NOT OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE FIRST
 DAY OF ANY FISCAL YEAR.
   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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 ment  contributions,  contributions  to  health insurance or other group
 insurance programs, child support and court ordered payments.
   §  2.  Paragraph  c of subdivision 2 of section 5-a of the legislative
 law, as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   c.  If  legislative  passage  of  the budget as defined in subdivision
 three of section five of this article has  not  occurred  prior  to  the
 first  day  of any fiscal year, the net amount of any allowances author-
 ized pursuant to this section to be paid on or after such date shall  be
 withheld  and  not paid until such legislative passage of the budget has
 occurred whereupon the payment of such allowances in an amount equal  to
 the  withheld  and unpaid payments shall be paid pursuant to paragraph b
 of this subdivision. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRA-
 RY, SUCH ALLOWANCES SHALL NOT BE WITHHELD PURSUANT TO  THIS  SECTION  IF
 THE  GOVERNOR  HAS  SUBMITTED  LEGISLATION  PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE OF
 ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION WHICH IS NOT NECESSARY  FOR  THE
 EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL OR BILLS AND LEGISLA-
 TIVE  PASSAGE  OF  THE BUDGET HAS NOT OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF
 ANY FISCAL YEAR.
   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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.