STATE OF NEW YORK
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7436
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
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, on forms provided by the
17 comptroller, and duly filed in accordance with such regulations.
18 Provided, however, such employee may submit a request for exemption from
19 the provisions of this subparagraph on a form provided by the comp-
20 troller.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023 and shall only apply
22 to state employees hired on and after such date. Effective immediately,
23 the adoption, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
24 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is author-
25 ized to be made by the state comptroller on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10550-01-1
