Relates to the payment of salaries for certain district attorneys; requires the state to provide state aid to pay such salaries; and appropriates $1,600,000 therefor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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519--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, AKSHAR, AVELLA, BONACIC, CARLUCCI, DeFRANCIS-
CO, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, KENNEDY, LARKIN, LITTLE, MARCHIONE,
MURPHY, O'MARA, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, SERINO, SEWARD, VALESKY --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the payment of salaries
for certain district attorneys; and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 11 of section 700 of the coun-
2 ty law, as amended by section 1 of part E of chapter 412 of the laws of
3 1999, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) Commencing with the nineteen hundred eighty-seven calendar year,
5 the comptroller shall annually determine the amount of state aid payable
6 to each county pursuant to paragraphs (a) [and], (b) and (d) hereof for
7 each calendar year and shall pay such amount on his audit and warrant to
8 the chief fiscal officer of each such county during the month of Septem-
9 ber in each such year. Where a county first becomes entitled to state
10 aid pursuant to paragraphs (a) [and], (b) and (d) hereof on a day other
11 than January first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine or January first of any
12 other year thereafter, the amount of state aid payable to such county in
13 the year it first becomes entitled to such state aid shall be prorated
14 accordingly.
15 § 2. Subdivision 11 of section 700 of the county law is amended by
16 adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
17 (d) In addition to the state aid provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
18 this subdivision, each county, the salary of the district attorney of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 which is determined pursuant to section one hundred eighty-three-a of
2 the judiciary law, shall be entitled to receive state aid in the amount
3 of one hundred percent of the difference between the amount required to
4 be paid to such district attorney pursuant to section one hundred eight-
5 y-three-a of the judiciary law on and after April first, two thousand
6 eighteen and the amount required to be paid pursuant to such section
7 immediately prior to such date.
8 § 3. The sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000),
9 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the
10 department of audit and control out of any moneys in the state treasury
11 in the general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not
12 otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose
13 of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
14 on the audit and warrant of the comptroller to the chief fiscal officer
15 of each such county as prescribed by law.
16 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
