Provides that the comptroller shall cause, in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the comptroller, that a state employee's net salary may be deposited directly in a bank for any purpose to an account in the name of such employee.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7436--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 7, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- (at request of the State Comptroller)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
-- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Employees in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the direct deposit
of certain salaries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 200 of the state
2 finance law, as amended by chapter 641 of the laws of 1997, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) (i) Upon the written request from a state employee hired on or
5 before January first, two thousand twenty-three, the comptroller may
6 cause, in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant
7 to paragraph (b) of this subdivision, such employee's net salary, or any
8 portion thereof designated by the employee, to be deposited directly in
9 a bank for any purpose to an account in the name of such employee, on
10 forms provided by the comptroller, and duly filed in accordance with
11 such regulations.
12 (ii) On and after January first, two thousand twenty-three, the comp-
13 troller shall cause, in accordance with the rules and regulations
14 promulgated pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision, a state
15 employee's net salary to be deposited directly in a bank for any purpose
16 to an account in the name of such employee, and into which such employee
17 has authorized such employee's net salary be deposited, on forms
18 provided by the comptroller, and duly filed in accordance with such
19 regulations. Provided, however, such employee may submit a request for
20 exemption from the provisions of this subparagraph on a form provided by
21 the comptroller.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (iii) The net salary of such state employee shall be paid in the form
2 of a paper check until the employee provides the account information for
3 a bank account in such employee's name which is authorized by the
4 employee for the purpose of the direct deposit of his or her salary
5 pursuant to this subdivision.
6 (iv) Nothing set forth in this subdivision shall be construed to
7 impede, infringe upon, or supersede an agreement providing for the
8 payment of salaries between the state and an employee organization
9 representing state officers and employees who are in positions which are
10 in collective negotiating units pursuant to article fourteen of the
11 civil service law.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023 and shall only apply
13 to state employees hired on and after such date. Effective immediately,
14 the adoption, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
15 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
16 authorized to be made by the state comptroller on or before such date.
