New York Legislative Law Article 2 - MEMBERS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE LEGISLATURE

• 2 - Exemption of Members and Officers From Arrest.
  A member of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in a civil action or proceeding other than for a forfeiture or breach of trust...
• 3 - Expulsion of Members.
  Each house has the power to expel any of its members, after the report of a committee to inquire into the charges against him shall...
• 4 - Contempts of Either House.
  Each house may punish by imprisonment not extending beyond the same session of the legislature, as for a contempt, for the following offenses only: 1....
• 5 - Compensation of Members.
  1. Effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary of seventy-nine thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Such...
• 5-a - Allowances for Member Serving As an Officer of Either House of the Legislature or in a Special Capacity Therein.
  1. Any member of either house of the legislature serving as an officer of his house or in any other special capacity therein or directly...
• 6 - Officers and Employees of the Senate.
  1. The senate may choose a secretary, a sergeant-at-arms, and an official stenographer. The secretary of the senate shall be elected for the term of...
• 7 - Officers and Employees of the Assembly.
  The assembly may choose a clerk, a sergeant-at-arms and a stenographer. When an appropriation has been made for the services, temporary or otherwise, of officers...
• 7-a - Legislative Library, Librarian and Assistants.
  There shall be a legislative library to be located in the state capitol in rooms assigned by the commissioner of general services, conveniently accessible to...
• 7-b - Legislative Emergency Health Station.
  1. There shall be a legislative emergency health station, available for the use of members and employees of both houses of the legislature, and official...
• 7-c - Member of Assembly Defined.
  The term "member of assembly" shall include assemblyman and assemblywoman.
• 7-d - Employees of the Legislature.
  Employees of any legislative committee, commission, task force, council or similar body, where all the members of such body are members of the legislature, shall...
• 7-e - Assistive Listening System for the Hearing Impaired.
  (a) The temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall have the power and it shall be their individual duty to...
• 7-f - Assembly Historian.
  The speaker of the assembly may appoint an official historian, who shall compile an annual record of significant assembly accomplishments during each year and submit...
• 7-g - Senate Historian.
  The temporary president of the senate may appoint an official historian, who shall compile an annual record of significant senate accomplishments during each year and...
• 8 - Appointments to Be Filed With the Comptroller.
  All appointments made under this chapter shall be filed with the respective secretary or clerk of the house wherein made, and certified to the comptroller...
• 9 - Additional Employees.
  A committee of investigation or other special committee of the legislature or of either house thereof may employ needed assistants and fix their compensation within...
• 10 - Compensation of Officers and Employees.
  The secretary of the senate, the clerk of the assembly, and all other officers and employees of the senate and assembly, shall be paid the...
• 11 - Designation of Payrolls As Annual, Session or Temporary.
  Any person having the statutory power to appoint, or fix the compensation and/or approve vouchers of officers and/or employees paid from appropriations made for the...
• 12 - Authorization of Expenditures.
  1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, expenditures from appropriations made for the legislature for services and expenses of the senate and the...
• 15 - Duties of Secretary and Clerk.
  The secretary of the senate and the clerk of the assembly shall from time to time revise, and send to the members of the legislature,...
• 16 - Supplies Furnished by Secretary and Clerk.
  a. The secretary of the senate, or such other officers or employees of the senate as the temporary president of the senate shall designate and...
• 17 - Accountability of Secretary and Clerk to Comptroller.
  The secretary of the senate, or such other officers or employees of the senate as the temporary president of the senate shall designate and the...
• 18 - Duties of Postmasters and Assistants.
  The postmasters and assistant postmasters and post-office messengers shall perform all the labors in the post-offices of their respective houses.
• 19 - Duties of Official Stenographers.
  The official stenographers of each house shall attend at every session of the body for which they are elected and take stenographic notes of the...
• 20 - Detail of Officers and Employees for Special Duties.
  The presiding officer and the respective secretary or clerk of each house or either of them, may detail any of the officers or employees thereof...
• 21 - Limitation of Legislative Expenses.
  Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, order to be printed more than ten thousand copies of any paper, bill or document, the...
• 22 - Custody of Legislative Papers and Documents.
  The secretary or clerk of each house, as the case may be, shall take charge of and keep on file all legislative papers and documents...
• 22-a - Reproduction and Destruction of Certain Records, Books and Papers of the Senate.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the officers or employees of the senate designated by the temporary president of the senate may cause any...
• 22-b - Destruction and Reproductions of Assembly Books and Records.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the officers or employees of the assembly designated by the speaker of the assembly may cause any of...
• 23 - Appropriation Bills, How Referred.
  All bills that involve any appropriation from the treasury of the state, when introduced in the senate, shall be referred to the committee on finance,...
• 24 - Legislative Bill Drafting Commission.
  A legislative bill drafting commission is hereby created to consist of two commissioners, one of whom shall be the commissioner for administration and the other...
• 25 - Duties of the Commission.
  The commission shall: 1. Draft or aid in drafting or examine legislative bills and resolutions and amendments thereto, upon request of a member or committee...
• 27 - Appointment of Secretaries of Finance and Ways and Means Committees.
  The committee on finance of the senate and the committee on ways and means of the assembly shall serve throughout the year, with power to...
• 28 - Compensation, Expenses, Employees.
  Such secretaries shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the appointing officer within the amount appropriated therefor and shall be paid their office,...
• 29 - Sub-Committees of Finance and Ways and Means Committees.
  For the purpose of more effectively carrying out the provisions of this article, and those of article two of the state departments law, the chairman...
• 30 - Duties of Finance and Ways and Means Committees and Secretaries.
  The committees and their secretaries shall have access at all reasonable times to offices of state departments, commissions, boards, bureaus and offices, to institutions and...
• 31 - Appearances and Inquiries in Respect to the Budget; Procedure Regulated.
  The governor and the heads of departments, divisions and offices each shall have the right to appear voluntarily and be heard in respect to the...
• 32 - Representation of Certain Legislative Committees During Revision of the Budget.
  The chairman of the finance committee of the senate and the chairman of the ways and means committee of the assembly and the ranking minority...
• 32-a - Budget; Public Hearings.
  After submission and prior to enactment of the executive budget, the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee jointly or separately shall...
• 33 - Exercise of Certain Statutory Powers During a Vacancy in Office of the Temporary President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly.
  A statutory power of the temporary president of the senate or speaker of the assembly, jointly or singly to approve vouchers, to direct the expenditure...

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