A10432 Summary:

BILL NOA10432
 
SAME ASSAME AS S07515
 
SPONSORHawley
 
COSPNSRBarclay, Friend, Butler, Giglio, Crouch, Lawrence, Duprey, McDonough, Oaks, Walter, Castorina
 
MLTSPNSRTenney
 
Amd §183-a, Judy L
 
Provides that any increases in compensation to district attorneys after January first, two thousand sixteen, resulting from actions of the New York state commission on legislative, judicial and executive compensation shall be reimbursed to the county by the office of court administration and shall be paid on or before the last day of each calendar year in which such increase shall have been paid.
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A10432 Actions:

BILL NOA10432
 
05/27/2016referred to judiciary
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A10432 Committee Votes:

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A10432 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A10432 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A10432
 
SPONSOR: Hawley (MS)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the judiciary law, in relation to compensation for district attorneys   PURPOSE: This bill will require the Office of Court Administration to reimburse from its budget each county for any cost to the county as the result of increases in annual compensation required to be paid to the district attorney (DA) of the county as the result of the actions of the New York State Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 - amends section 183-a of the Judiciary Law to add a provision that any increase in compensation to district attorneys after January 1, 2016 resulting from actions of the New York State Commission on Legisla- tive, Judicial and Executive Compensation, shall be reimbursed to the county by the Office of Court Administration and shall be paid on or before the last day of each calendar year in which such increase shall have been paid. Section 2 - provides that this act shall take effect immediately.   JUSTIFICATION: On December 24, 2015, the New York State Commission on Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Compensation voted to recommend increasing all state judge salaries in 2016 and 2018. As a result, Supreme Court judg- es' salaries were raised to $193,000 in 2016 and $203,000.00 in 2018.Compensation for County Court Judges are set at 95% of a Supreme Court Justice's salary. These recommendations were approved by the state on April 1, 2016. State Judicial Law 183-a provides that DA salaries are linked with judi- cial salaries, requiring DA's salaries to be equal to or higher than either the County Court Judge or Supreme Court Judge in a county, depending on full or part-time status. Historically, the state has paid for DA salary increases mandated on counties, usually through the state budget. Unfortunately, the budget adopted for SFY 2016-17 did not include funds to cover the DA salary increases. It is estimated that the mandate to increase DA salaries will initially cost each county approximately $30,000.00, a cost that was not antic- ipated in the county budgets for 2016. Even going forward, it will be difficult for counties to bear the increased costs associated with these raises because of the caps that have been placed upon their budgets. If the Legislative Commission and the State believe that the Judicial system will be benefitted by increasing DA salaries, then it should be incumbent upon the Judicial system to fund these costs. 'This legis- lation will provide relief to counties for this burden placed upon coun- ties and shift it to its proper responsible party.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately
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A10432 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          10432
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 27, 2016
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. HAWLEY, BARCLAY, FRIEND, BUTLER, GIGLIO, CROUCH,
          LAWRENCE, DUPREY, McDONOUGH, OAKS -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.
          TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  judiciary  law, in relation to compensation for
          district attorneys
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section 183-a of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter
     2  1049 of the laws of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 183-a. Compensation of certain district attorneys.   Notwithstanding
     4  any  other provision of law, the district attorney of each county having
     5  a population of more than five hundred thousand according  to  the  last
     6  federal  census,  exclusive  of  the counties of New York, Bronx, Kings,
     7  Queens and Richmond, shall receive an annual salary equivalent  to  that
     8  of  a  justice  of the state supreme court together with such additional
     9  compensation as the legislative body of such county may provide by local
    10  law. Further, that the district attorney of each county having  a  popu-
    11  lation  of  more  than  one  hundred thousand and less than five hundred
    12  thousand according to the last federal census, exclusive of  the  county
    13  of  Richmond,  and  the  district  attorney  of any county, the board of
    14  supervisors of which has designated such office as a full-time  position
    15  pursuant  to  subdivision  eight  of section seven hundred of the county
    16  law, shall receive an annual salary equivalent to that of  county  judge
    17  in  the  county  in which the district attorney is elected or appointed,
    18  together with such additional compensation as the  legislative  body  of
    19  such  county  may provide by local law. Any increases in compensation to
    20  district attorneys after January first, two thousand sixteen,  resulting
    21  from  actions  of the New York state commission on legislative, judicial
    22  and executive compensation shall be reimbursed  to  the  county  by  the
    23  office  of  court administration and shall be paid on or before the last
    24  day of each calendar year in which such increase shall have been paid.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15135-01-6
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