Directs the state to provide reimbursement to counties for mandated increases in compensation paid to district attorneys after April 1, 2016; appropriates $1,600,000 therefor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7417
IN SENATE
April 29, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to direct the state to provide financial assistance to counties
for mandated district attorney salary increases; and making an appro-
priation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
2 the state, acting by and through the department of state, shall pay
3 state aid and assistance to each county in the state equal to the
4 difference in the annual compensation required to be paid to the
5 district attorney of the county during the 2015 calendar year, and the
6 compensation required to be paid to such district attorney on and after
7 April 1, 2016 as the result of the increase in compensation paid to
8 district attorneys pursuant to section 183-a of the judiciary law and
9 the implementation of the recommendations of the New York state commis-
10 sion on legislative, judicial and executive compensation, relating to
11 compensation paid to supreme court justices and county court judges.
12 § 2. The sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000),
13 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the
14 department of state out of any moneys in the state treasury in the
15 general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not other-
16 wise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of
17 carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on
18 the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
19 approved by the secretary of state in the manner prescribed by law.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15174-01-6
