New York legislation · 2025-2026 General Assembly
New York A7764: Relates to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature
Status: In committee, January 7, 2026
Provides that bi-weekly salary installment payments and allowances shall not be withheld for members of the state legislature if the governor has submitted certain legislation which is not necessary for the effective implementation of the appropriation bill or bills and legislative passage of the budget has not occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year.
What the bill says
An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature.
From the introduced text, April 9, 2025:
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 5 of the legislative law, as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1998, the opening paragraph as amended by chapter 841 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 1. Effective January first, two thousand twenty-three, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary of one hundred forty-two thousand dollars per annum. Such salary of a member of the legislature shall be payable in twenty-six bi-weekly installments provided, however, that if legislative passage of the budget as defined in subdivision three of this section has not occurred prior to the first day of any fiscal year, the net amount of any such bi-weekly salary installment payments to be paid on or after such day shall be withheld and not paid until such legislative passage of the budget has occurred whereupon bi-weekly salary installment payments shall resume and an amount equal to the accrued, withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, SUCH BI-WEEKLY SALARY INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS SHALL NOT …
Sponsors
- Carl Heastie (D, 83) · primary sponsor
- William Barclay (R, 120)
- Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D, 141)
- Deborah Glick (D, 66)
- Philip Ramos (D, 6)
- Latrice Walker (D, 55)
- Alicia Hyndman (D, 29)
- Alfred Taylor (D, 71)
- Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (D, 34)
- Amanda Septimo (D, 84)
- Stefani Zinerman (D, 56)
- John Zaccaro (D, 80)
Latest actions
- : REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
- : REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
Subjects: Legislative Law
Common questions
- What is A7764?
- A7764 is a bill in the New York Legislature (2025-2026 General Assembly): Relates to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature.
- What does A7764 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature.
- What is the status of A7764?
- In committee as of January 7, 2026. Latest action: REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS (January 7, 2026).
- Who sponsored A7764?
- Carl Heastie (D, 83), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for A7764?
- On the New York Legislature website: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A7764
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