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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7515
IN SENATE
May 6, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed 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
