Bill Text: NY A07436 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-01 - substituted by s6617a [A07436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07436-Amended.html

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                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.