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2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 34 - Certification of Public Service Employment › 1000 - Definitions.

§ 1000. Definitions. For purposes of this article:
1.  "Certifying  employment"  means  either  completing  the  employer
  sections of the public service loan forgiveness  form  or  sharing  data
  directly  with  the U.S. department of education that corresponds to the
  information required for the public service loan forgiveness form.
2. "Employee" means someone who works for a public  service  employer,
  regardless of whether the public service employer considers that work to
  be full-time or part-time, contingent, or contracted.
3.  "Full-time"  for  the  purpose of certifying employment only means
  working at least an average of thirty hours per  week  or  at  least  an
  average  of thirty hours per week throughout a contractual or employment
  period of at least eight  months  in  a  twelve-month  period,  such  as
  elementary and secondary school teachers, provided, however, that should
  the  U.S.  department  of  education adopt a lower hourly standard, that
  standard shall apply.
4. "Public service employer" means any employer designated as a public
  service organization or employer by the U.S. department of education for
  the purpose of the public service loan  forgiveness  program.  The  term
  shall  include  any  state,  county,  city  or  other  local  government
  employer, including any office, department, independent  agency,  school
  district,  public  college  or university system, public library system,
  authority, or other body, including the legislature and  the  judiciary,
  as  well  as  any employer that has received designation as a tax-exempt
  organization pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal  Revenue
  Code.  For  the  purposes  of this article, this term does not include a
  federal or tribal nation government organization, agency, or entity.
5. "Public service loan forgiveness form" means the form used  by  the
  U.S.  department of education to certify an individual's employment at a
  public service organization and determine eligibility for  the  purposes
  of the public service loan forgiveness program.
6.  "Public  service  loan forgiveness program" means the federal loan
  forgiveness program established  pursuant  to  20  U.S.C.  1087e(m)  and
  administered  pursuant  to 34 C.F.R 685.219, as of the effective date of
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 34 - Certification of Public Service Employment › 1001 - Hours Worked and Full-Time Employment.

§  1001.  Hours  worked  and full-time employment. The following shall
  apply for the purposes of certifying employment for the purposes of  the
  public  service  loan  forgiveness  program only and shall have no other
  applicability for public service employers and their employees.
1. For  faculty  or  teacher  employees,  a  public  service  employer
  certifying employment after the effective date of this subdivision shall
  credit  3.35  hours  worked  for each hour of lecture or classroom time,
  regardless of when the hours were worked, including hours  worked  prior
  to  the  effective  date  of this subdivision. This subdivision does not
  supersede any greater adjustment  factor  established  by  a  collective
  bargaining  agreement  or  employer  policy in recognition of additional
  work associated with lecture or classroom time for the  purpose  of  the
  public service loan forgiveness program.
2.  When determining whether an employee is considered "full-time," as
  that term is defined in this article,  for  the  purpose  of  certifying
  employment  for  the  public  service  loan  forgiveness program only, a
  public service employer shall not treat any adjusted total hours  worked
  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this  section differently from hours
  worked without an adjustment factor.
3. For the purpose of certifying employment  only,  a  public  service
  employer  shall  consider  as "full-time" any employee who satisfies the
  definition of "full-time" provided in this article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 34 - Certification of Public Service Employment › 1002 - Certifying Employment.

§  1002.  Certifying  employment.  1.  Should  the  U.S. department of
  education permit public service employers to certify employment for past
  or present individual employees or groups of employees directly with the
  U.S. department  of  education  or  its  agents,  notwithstanding  other
  provisions  of law, a public service employer shall be permitted to send
  to the U.S. department  of  education  or  its  agents  the  information
  necessary for employment certification.
2.  If  a public service employer does not directly certify employment
  with the U.S. department of education pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of
  this  section, the public service employer shall annually provide notice
  of renewal and a copy of the public service loan forgiveness  form  with
  the  employer  information  and employment certification sections of the
  form already completed to:
a. an employee who requests a public service loan forgiveness form;
b. any current employee for  whom  the  public  service  employer  has
  previously certified employment; and
c.  an  employee who is ending his or her work with the public service
  employer.
The partially completed form should reflect employment for  the  prior
  calendar  year,  and  may  reflect  longer  periods  of  employment,  as
  necessary.
3.  A  public  service  employer  shall  not  unreasonably  delay   in
  certifying employment.
4.  Nothing  in  this  section shall prevent a public service employer
  from seeking permission from its employees  prior  to  certifying  their
  employment.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 35 - New York Youth Jobs Connector Program › 1005 - Administration and Services.

§  1005.  Administration  and services. 1. There is hereby established
  within the department a New York youth jobs connector program to connect
  unemployed and underemployed individuals between the ages of sixteen and
  twenty-four years with targeted educational, occupational, and  training
  services  to  help  prepare  such individuals for employment and improve
  opportunities for such individuals to  become  employed.  The  New  York
  youth  jobs  connector program shall be responsible for facilitating the
  coordination and delivery of existing programs and resources  throughout
  the  state  which  are designed to assist individuals identified in this
  article with  opportunities  for  employment,  skills  development,  job
  training, and the other related services described in subdivision two of
  this section.
2.  The  department  shall  coordinate  with  the  office of strategic
  workforce development, the department of education, the state university
  of New York, the city university of New York, the  office  of  temporary
  and  disability  assistance, the office of children and family services,
  the urban development corporation and its subsidiaries,  and  any  other
  relevant agency or entity, to carry out the purposes of this article and
  leverage  existing  funds  and programs for unemployed and underemployed
  youth consistent with the purposes described herein.  Services  provided
  by  such  programs  may  include,  but  are  not limited to, high school
  equivalency, basic education, job skills  training,  English-as-a-second
  language,   job   readiness   training,  job  placement  services,  case
  management, career counseling and  assessment,  pre-apprenticeships  and
  apprenticeships, pre-vocational skills training, employability planning,
  supportive  services, proactive outreach to unemployed and underemployed
  youths, skills and vocational programs leading to  career  pathways  and
  gainful  employment,  and  the  development  or  promulgation  of  other
  resources and programs to assist youths between the ages of sixteen  and
  twenty-four years, particularly at-risk youths in such category.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 35 - New York Youth Jobs Connector Program › 1006 - Funding.

§  1006.  Funding.  The  department  shall  identify  and leverage any
  available funds as necessary, including any private funds  provided  for
  the  purpose  of supporting this article, which may be used to subsidize
  the New York youth jobs connector program. The  department  may  further
  identify  any private or not-for-profit entities which currently provide
  job placement or training  services,  or  other  services  described  in
  section  one  thousand  five  of  this  article, whether as the entity's
  primary purpose or  coincidental  to  such  entities'  operations.  Such
  entities may include, but not be limited to, boys and girls clubs, local
  or  state-wide  affiliated  young  persons'  organizations, and employer
  associations. The department may, to the  extent  practicable,  contract
  with such entities for the explicit purpose of using their membership or
  staff to directly seek out and notify unemployed youths between the ages
  of sixteen and twenty-four years about the New York youth jobs connector
  program and the services offered thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 35 - New York Youth Jobs Connector Program › 1007 - Public Outreach.

§  1007.  Public  outreach. 1. The department shall engage in outreach
efforts to raise awareness about  the  New  York  youth  jobs  connector
program  and the services offered thereunder. Such outreach may include,
but not be limited to:
(a) brochures and posters  to  be  distributed  to  school  districts,
boards  of cooperative educational services, public libraries, community
colleges, trade schools, agricultural and technical colleges, and  other
public institutions of higher education;
(b)  use  of  social  media,  internet,  radio,  newspapers, and print
advertising;
(c) participation in, or organization of program and job fairs;
(d) posting easily accessible hyperlinks to such  information  on  the
department's website;
(e) collaboration with employment agencies or unions; and
(f)  recruitment of individuals to serve as visible public ambassadors
to promote the program.
2. The department, in consultation  with  the  office  of  information
technology  services, shall create publicly accessible online surveys to
assess the goals, eligibility, and job readiness of  individuals  served
by  the  program  to  match  such  individuals with a subset of relevant
programs and services for consideration.  Such  surveys  shall  be  made
available on the department's website. The department shall also publish
an  informational webpage to provide details on the program and outreach
events as well as information on and a hyperlink to the online surveys.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 35 - New York Youth Jobs Connector Program › 1008 - Annual Report.

§  1008.  Annual  report. Not later than two years after the effective
  date of this article, and annually thereafter,  the  commissioner  shall
  prepare  and submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of
  the senate, and the speaker of the assembly on the efficacy and progress
  made by the New York youth jobs  connector  program.  In  preparing  the
  report,  the  commissioner  may  seek  and  include  input from relevant
  stakeholders, including participating  youths,  schools,  programs,  and
  employers.  The  report  shall  also  include recommendations on further
  improvements concerning outreach efforts  to  spread  awareness  of  the
  program.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-A - Legislative Declaration.

§  1-a.  Legislative declaration. The legislature hereby declares that
  the operation of responsible democratic  government  requires  that  the
  fullest  opportunity  be  afforded  to  the  people  to  petition  their
  government for the redress  of  grievances  and  to  express  freely  to
  appropriate  officials  their  opinions  on legislation and governmental
  operations; and that, to preserve and  maintain  the  integrity  of  the
  governmental decision-making process in this state, it is necessary that
  the  identity,  expenditures and activities of persons and organizations
  retained, employed or designated to influence the passage or  defeat  of
  any  legislation  by either house of the legislature or the approval, or
  veto, of any legislation by the governor and attempts to  influence  the
  adoption  or  rejection  of  any rule or regulation having the force and
  effect of law or the outcome of any rate making proceeding  by  a  state
  agency, and the attempts to influence the passage or defeat of any local
  law, ordinance, or regulation be publicly and regularly disclosed.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-F - Monthly Registration Docket.

§  1-f.  Monthly  registration  docket.  It  shall  be the duty of the
  commission to compile a monthly docket  of  statements  of  registration
  containing  all  information  required by section one-e of this article.
  Each such monthly docket shall contain all  statements  of  registration
  filed   during  such  month  and  all  amendments  to  previously  filed
  statements of registration. Copies shall be made  available  for  public
  inspection.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-G - Termination of Retainer, Employment or Designation.

§  1-g.  Termination  of retainer, employment or designation. Upon the
  termination of a lobbyist's retainer, employment  or  designation,  such
  lobbyist  and  the client on whose behalf such service has been rendered
  shall both give written notice to  the  commission  within  thirty  days
  after  the  lobbyist  ceases the activity that required such lobbyist to
  file  a  statement  of  registration;  however,  such   lobbyist   shall
  nevertheless comply with the bi-monthly reporting requirements up to the
  date  such activity has ceased as required by this article and both such
  parties shall each file the semi-annual report required by section one-j
  of this article. The commission shall enter notice of  such  termination
  in the appropriate monthly registration docket required by section one-f
  of this article.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-K - Contingent Retainer.

§  1-k.  Contingent retainer. (a) No client shall retain or employ any
lobbyist for compensation, the rate or amount of which  compensation  in
whole or part is contingent or dependent upon:
(1)  (A) the passage or defeat of any legislative bill or the approval
or veto of any legislation by the governor,  (B)  the  terms,  issuance,
modification  or  rescission of a gubernatorial executive order, (C) the
terms, approval or disapproval, or the implementation and administration
of tribal-state compacts,  memoranda  of  understanding,  or  any  other
tribal-state  agreements  and  any  state  actions  related to class III
gaming as provided in 25 U.S.C. 2701, or (D) the adoption  or  rejection
of  any  code,  rule or regulation having the force and effect of law or
the outcome of any rate making proceeding by a state agency;
(2)(A) the passage or defeat of any local law,  ordinance,  regulation
or resolution by any municipality or subdivision thereof, (B) the terms,
issuance, modification or rescission of an executive order issued by the
chief  executive  officer  of  a  municipality,  or  (C)  the  adoption,
rejection or implementation of any rule, resolution or regulation having
the force and effect of a local law, ordinance or regulation or any rate
making proceeding by any municipality or subdivision thereof;
(3) any determination by a state agency, either  house  of  the  state
legislature,  the  unified  court  system,  municipal  agency  or  local
legislative body with respect to a governmental procurement or a  grant,
loan or agreement involving the disbursement of public monies.
(b)  No  person shall accept such a retainer or employment. Any person
who violates this section shall be subject to a  civil  penalty  not  to
exceed  the  greater  of  ten  thousand  dollars  or  the  value  of the
contingent fee, and such violation shall be a class A misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-L - Reports of Lobbying Involving Disbursement of Public Monies.

§  1-l.  Reports  of lobbying involving disbursement of public monies.
(a) Any lobbyist required to file a statement of  registration  pursuant
to  section  one-e  of  this article who in any lobbying year reasonably
anticipates that during the year they  will  expend,  incur  or  receive
combined  reportable compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of
five thousand dollars shall file with the commission, on forms  supplied
by the commission, a report of any attempts to influence a determination
by  a  public  official, or by a person or entity working in cooperation
with a public official, with  respect  to  the  solicitation,  award  or
administration of a grant, loan, or agreement involving the disbursement
of  public  monies  in  excess  of fifteen thousand dollars other than a
governmental procurement as defined in section one-c of this article.
(b) Such public monies lobbying reports shall contain:
(i) the name, address and telephone number of  the  lobbyist  and  the
individuals  employed  by  the  lobbyist  engaged  in such public monies
lobbying activities;
(ii) the name, address and telephone number of the client by  whom  or
on  whose  behalf  the  lobbyist  is retained, employed or designated on
whose behalf the lobbyist has engaged in lobbying reportable under  this
paragraph;
(iii)  a  description  of  the grant, loan, or agreement involving the
disbursement of public monies on which the lobbyist has lobbied;
(iv) the name of the person, organization, or legislative body  before
which  the  lobbyist  has  engaged  in  lobbying  reportable  under this
paragraph; and
(v) the compensation paid or owed to the lobbyist,  and  any  expenses
expended,  received  or  incurred  by  the  lobbyist  for the purpose of
lobbying reportable under this paragraph.
(c) Public monies lobbying reports required pursuant to  this  section
shall  be filed in accordance with the schedule applicable to the filing
of bi-monthly reports pursuant to section  one-h  of  this  article  and
shall  be filed not later than the fifteenth day next succeeding the end
of such reporting period.
(d) In addition to any other fees  authorized  by  this  section,  the
commission may impose a fee for late filing of a report required by this
subdivision  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  dollars for each day that the
report required to be filed is late, except that if the lobbyist  making
a late filing has not previously been required by statute to file such a
report,  the  fee  for late filing shall not exceed ten dollars for each
day that the report required to be filed is late.
(e) All reports filed pursuant to this subdivision shall be subject to
review by the commission. Such reports shall be kept in electronic  form
by the commission and shall be available for public inspection.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-M - Prohibition of Gifts.

§  1-m.  Prohibition  of gifts. No individual or entity required to be
  listed on a statement of registration pursuant  to  this  article  shall
  offer  or  give  a  gift  to  any public official as defined within this
  article, unless under the circumstances it is not  reasonable  to  infer
  that  the  gift  was  intended  to  influence  such  public official. No
  individual  or  entity  required  to  be  listed  on  a   statement   of
  registration  pursuant to this article shall offer or give a gift to the
  spouse or unemancipated child of any public official as  defined  within
  this  article  under  circumstances where it is reasonable to infer that
  the gift was intended to influence such public official.  No  spouse  or
  unemancipated  child  of  an  individual  required  to  be  listed  on a
  statement of registration pursuant to this article shall offer or give a
  gift to a public official under circumstances where it is reasonable  to
  infer that the gift was intended to influence such public official. This
  section  shall  not  apply to gifts to officers, members or directors of
  boards, commissions, councils,  public  authorities  or  public  benefit
  corporations  who  receive  no  compensation or are compensated on a per
  diem basis, unless the person listed on the  statement  of  registration
  appears  or  has matters pending before the board, commission or council
  on which the recipient sits.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-P - Enforcement.

§ 1-p. Enforcement. (a) All statements and reports required under this
article  shall  be  subject  to  a  declaration by the person making and
filing such statement and report that the information is  true,  correct
and  complete  to  the best knowledge and belief of the signer under the
penalties of perjury.
(b) The commission shall be charged with the  duty  of  reviewing  all
statements  and  reports required under this article for violations, and
it shall be their duty, if they deem such to be wilful, to  report  such
determination to the attorney general or other appropriate authority.
(c)  Upon  receipt  of notice of such failure from the commission, the
attorney general or other appropriate authority shall take  such  action
as he deems appropriate to secure compliance with the provisions of this
article.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-Q - Record of Appearances.

§  1-q.  Record  of  appearances.  The commission shall promulgate all
  rules  or  regulations  and  any  procedures,  forms,  or   instructions
  necessary  to  implement the provisions of section one hundred sixty-six
  of the executive law relating to the quarterly filing of the  record  of
  appearances before regulatory agencies.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-R - Publication of Statement on Lobbying Regulations.

§   1-r.   Publication  of  statement  on  lobbying  regulations.  The
  commission shall publish a statement  on  lobbying  regulations  setting
  forth the requirements of this article in a clear and brief manner. Such
  statement  shall  contain  an explanation of the registration and filing
  requirements and the penalties for violation thereof, together with such
  other information as the commission shall determine, and copies  thereof
  shall be made available to the public at convenient locations throughout
  the state.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-S - Public Access to Records; Format of Records and Reports.

§  1-s.  Public  access to records; format of records and reports. The
  commission shall make information furnished  by  lobbyists  and  clients
  available  to  the  public  for inspection and copying in electronic and
  paper formats. Access to such information shall also be  made  available
  for remote computer users through the internet network.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-U - Applicability of Certain Laws.

§  1-u.  Applicability of certain laws. The provisions of this article
  including, but not limited  to,  any  proceeding  or  hearing  conducted
  pursuant  hereto,  shall  be subject to the applicable provisions of the
  state administrative procedure act  and  section  seventy-three  of  the
  civil rights law.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 1-A - Lobbying Act › 1-V - Separability Clause.

§  1-v.  Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article
  or the application thereof to any person or organization is adjudged  by
  a  court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, such judgment
  shall  not  affect  or  impair  any  other  part  or  provision  or  the
  application  thereof  to  any other person or organization, but shall be
  confined in its operation to the part, provision, person or organization
  directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
  been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 2 - Exemption of Members and Officers From Arrest.

§ 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 in public
  office or employment, while attending upon its session, and for fourteen
  days before and after each session, or while absent for  not  more  than
  fourteen days during the session with the leave of the house of which he
  is a member.
An  officer  of either house shall be privileged from arrest in such a
  civil action or proceeding while in actual attendance  upon  the  house.
  Either  house  shall  have the power to discharge from arrest any of its
  members or officers arrested in violation of his privilege from arrest.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 4 - Contempts of Either House.

§ 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.  Arresting  a member or officer of either house in violation of his
  privilege from arrest;
2. Disorderly conduct of  its  members,  officers  or  others  in  the
  immediate  view  and  presence  of  the  house, tending to interrupt its
  proceedings;
3. The publication of a false and malicious report of its proceedings,
  or of the conduct of a member in his legislative capacity;
4. Giving or offering a bribe to a member, or attempting, by menace or
  other corrupt means, directly or indirectly, to influence  a  member  in
  giving  or  withholding  his  vote,  or in not attending meetings of the
  house of which he is a member;
5. Neglect to attend or to be examined as a witness before  the  house
  or  committee thereof, or upon reasonable notice to produce any material
  books, papers, or documents, when duly required to give testimony or  to
  produce  such  books,  papers  or documents in a legislative proceeding,
  inquiry or investigation.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 5-B - Limit on Outside Earned Income by Members.

§ 5-b. Limit on outside earned income by members. 1. Effective January
first,  two thousand twenty-five a member of the legislature receiving a
salary for legislative  work  from  the  state  of  New  York  shall  be
permitted  to  earn  outside  income  each  year  for performing fee for
service activities and compensated outside activities approved under the
permanent joint rules of the Senate and Assembly in an  amount  totaling
no greater than the earning limitations for retired persons in positions
of  public  service  allowed  for the same year under subdivision two of
section two hundred twelve of the retirement and  social  security  law.
Compliance  with  the  limit  on outside earned income described in this
section shall be  a  condition  precedent  to  receiving  a  salary  for
legislative  activities  from  the  state  of  New York, and voting as a
member of the legislature of the state of New York.
2. a. For purposes of this section, the term "outside  earned  income"
shall  mean  wages,  salaries,  fees and other forms of compensation for
services actually rendered.
b. For the purposes of this section, the term "outside earned  income"
shall not include:
(1) salary, benefits and allowances paid by the state;
(2)  income  and allowances attributable to service in the reserves of
the armed forces of the United States, national guard  or  other  active
military service;
(3)  copyright  royalties, fees, and their functional equivalent, from
the use  of  copyrights,  patents  and  similar  forms  of  intellectual
property  rights,  when received from established users or purchasers of
such rights;
(4) income from retirement plans of the state of New York or the  city
of New York, private pension plans or deferred compensation plans (e.g.,
401,  403(b),  457,  etc.)  established  in accordance with the internal
revenue code;
(5) income from investments and  capital  gains,  where  the  member's
services are not a material factor in the production of income;
(6)  income from a trade or business in which a member of their family
holds a controlling interest, where the  member's  services  are  not  a
material factor in the production of income; and
(7)  compensation  from  services  actually  rendered prior to January
first, two thousand twenty-five, or prior to being sworn in as a  member
of the legislature.
3.  A  member  of  the  legislature  who  knowingly  and intentionally
violates the provisions of this section shall  be  subject  to  a  civil
penalty  in an amount not to exceed forty thousand dollars and the value
of any gift, compensation or benefit received in  connection  with  such
violation.    Assessment  of  a  civil  penalty  shall  be  made  by the
legislative ethics commission.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 7-A - Legislative Library, Librarian and Assistants.

§ 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 the
  members of both houses of legislature, and such library  shall  be  open
  throughout the year.
Such  library  shall  be  suitably  furnished, equipped and maintained
  under the direction of the legislative librarian, within the  amount  of
  any  moneys available therefor by appropriation, subject to joint rules,
  if any, that may be adopted by  the  senate  and  assembly  in  relation
  thereto.  There  shall be, for such library, a legislative librarian and
  such assistant librarians and other employees as may be provided for  in
  the legislative appropriation bill. Such librarian, assistant librarians
  and  other  employees  shall be chosen by the temporary president of the
  senate and speaker of the assembly.  One  of  the  assistant  librarians
  shall  be  assigned  by  the legislative librarian to have charge of the
  legislative  correspondents'  room  in  the  capitol.  The   legislative
  librarian and assistant librarians heretofore chosen by the president of
  the  senate and speaker of the assembly, and in office when this section
  as hereby amended takes effect, shall  continue  to  serve  until  their
  successors  shall  be  chosen.  The  salaries  and  compensation  of the
  legislative librarian, assistant librarians and other employees shall be
  payable from moneys appropriated in the legislative appropriation  bill.
  During  a  vacancy in the office of legislative librarian, the assistant
  librarian who shall have been longest in the service of the state  as  a
  legislative  employee, shall be employed as acting legislative librarian
  with the powers and duties of such librarian, and shall  receive  during
  such  period  the  compensation  herein  prescribed  for the legislative
  librarian. Such librarian shall have charge of the legislative  library,
  but  the two houses of the legislature may, by joint rules, regulate the
  use  of  the  library  and  prescribe  the  powers  and  duties  of  the
  legislative librarian and the assistant librarians.
The  legislative  librarian, the assistant librarians and employees of
  the legislative library shall be  considered  to  be  employees  of  the
  legislature for all purposes.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 7-B - Legislative Emergency Health Station.

§ 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 reporters
  of the senate and assembly  duly  designated  upon  certificate  of  the
  legislative  correspondent's  association,  to  be  located on the third
  floor of the state capitol, conveniently accessible to the  legislature,
  and  such  emergency health station shall be open at all times while the
  legislature is in  session.  Such  emergency  health  station  shall  be
  suitable  and  adequately  equipped  to administer first aid, within the
  amount of moneys available therefor by appropriation, subject  to  joint
  rules,  if  any,  that  may  be  adopted  by  the senate and assembly in
  relation  thereto  and  maintained  under  the  direction  of  a   nurse
  registered  under  the laws of the state. The nurse provided for in this
  section shall be chosen by the temporary president of the senate and the
  speaker of the assembly and shall serve until his or her successor shall
  be chosen in like manner. The salary  and  compensation  of  such  nurse
  shall  be  payable  monthly from moneys appropriated for compensation of
  officers and employees of the senate and assembly.
2. The nurse and employees of the legislative emergency health station
  shall be considered to be employees of the legislature for all purposes.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 7-D - Employees of the Legislature.

§ 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 be
  considered to be employees of the legislature for all purposes.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 7-E - Assistive Listening System for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

§ 7-e. Assistive  listening  system  for the deaf and hard of hearing.
(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
equip the senate chambers, the assembly chambers and any  hearing  rooms
located  in  the legislative office building in Albany which accommodate
more than one hundred persons with an assistive listening system for use
by the deaf and hard of hearing.
(b) For purposes  of  this  section,  the  term  "assistive  listening
system" shall mean situational-personal acoustic communication equipment
designed  to  improve  the transmission and auditory reception of sound.
Such system shall include but not be limited  to  the  use  of  standard
amplitude  modulation  (AM),  frequency modulation (FM), audio induction
loop, infrared light sound, or hard wire systems.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 7-F - Assembly Historian.

§  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 to the speaker such
  written  record  within  one hundred twenty days after the close of each
  session. The historian shall serve without compensation, at the pleasure
  of the speaker, and be responsible for preparation of the history of the
  assembly during such speaker's tenure.
Appointment as assembly historian shall be made from  names  submitted
  by  the  majority  and minority leaders of the assembly. No person shall
  simultaneously hold the  positions  of  assembly  historian  and  senate
  historian.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 7-G - Senate Historian.

§  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 submit to the
  temporary president such written record within one hundred  twenty  days
  after  the  close  of  each  session.  The historian shall serve without
  compensation, at  the  pleasure  of  the  temporary  president,  and  be
  responsible  for  preparation  of  the history of the senate during such
  temporary president's tenure.
Appointment as senate historian shall be made from names submitted  by
  the  deputy  majority  and the minority leaders of the senate. No person
  shall simultaneously hold the positions of assembly historian and senate
  historian.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 8 - Appointments to Be Filed With the Comptroller.

§ 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 by the
  appointing  officer  with a statement of the date of appointment and the
  compensation. In case of  the  death,  resignation  or  removal  by  the
  appointing  officer  of an officer or employee appointed by him pursuant
  to this chapter, the vacancy shall be filled by the officer  making  the
  original  appointment and he shall file with the comptroller a notice of
  such vacancy and the name of the person appointed as successor, with the
  date of such appointment and the compensation.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 10 - Compensation of Officers and Employees.

§ 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 compensation fixed by the
  appointing officer within the amount provided by appropriation.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 11 - Designation of Payrolls as Annual, Session or Temporary.

§ 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 legislature shall place  all  such  officers
  and/or  employees  on  an  annual, session or temporary payroll, as such
  person shall, in his sole discretion, determine. Any payroll  which  was
  paid from appropriations made for the legislature prior to the effective
  date  of this section and which was not designated as annual, session or
  temporary shall be considered as an annual payroll for all purposes.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 15 - Duties of Secretary and Clerk.

§ 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, the clerk's manual, and shall as soon as
  practicable  after  the  organization  of  the  legislature,  prepare  a
  directory of the members and elected officers, with their public  office
  addresses  while  in  the city of Albany.   Within the discretion of the
  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly,  such
  directory  may  contain the names of other officers and employees of the
  senate and assembly.
The respective secretary or clerk of each  house  shall,  as  soon  as
  practicable  after the close of each session, prepare and deliver to the
  legislative printer the indexes to the journals and bills of such house.
The respective secretary and clerk shall prepare  a  list  of  mailing
  addresses  of  senators  and  members  of  the  assembly  which shall be
  submitted to the state board of elections by February twentieth of  each
  year.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 17 - Accountability of Secretary and Clerk to Comptroller.

§ 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
  clerk of the assembly, or  such  other  officers  or  employees  of  the
  assembly  as  the speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively,
  shall, from time to time, file with  the  comptroller  vouchers  of  all
  bills  incurred  by their respective houses for the purchase of material
  and services except personal service. Such vouchers  duly  certified  by
  such  secretary  or  clerk  or  designee,  shall  be  accompanied by the
  certification of each payee to the effect  that  each  invoice  or  bill
  covered  by  such voucher is just, true and correct and that the balance
  is actually due and owing.
The respective fiscal officers shall from  time  to  time  notify  the
  comptroller  of  the  appointment  of  personnel  and  the  rendering of
  personal services, at such times and in such manner as  the  comptroller
  shall prescribe, and stating the name and title of the payee, the period
  of service, the compensation and the amount due.
This  section shall not apply to employees of the committee on finance
  of the senate, of the committee on ways and means of the assembly or  of
  special joint legislative committees.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 18 - Duties of Postmasters and Assistants.

§ 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.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 19 - Duties of Official Stenographers.

§ 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 debates of such body and in
  the committee of the whole thereof.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 20 - Detail of Officers and Employees for Special Duties.

§ 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  to
  perform  such  duties  in addition to those ordinarily performed as they
  may deem advisable to promote the business of such house.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 21 - Limitation of Legislative Expenses.

§ 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 aggregate cost of which shall
  exceed one thousand dollars; or appoint any committee of its own members
  or others at the public expense, except in case of contested  elections;
  or incur any expense whatever except as provided by this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 23 - Appropriation Bills, How Referred.

§ 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,  and when
  introduced in the assembly, shall be referred to the committee  on  ways
  and means.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 24 - Legislative Bill Drafting Commission.

§ 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
  of whom shall be the commissioner for operations. Each such commissioner
  shall be appointed jointly by the temporary president of the senate  and
  the speaker of the assembly. Such appointments shall be evidenced by the
  joint  certificate of the appointing officers filed in the office of the
  secretary of state.  Each such commissioner shall hold office until  his
  successor  is  appointed in the same manner as hereinabove provided. The
  commissioners shall receive such compensation as may be provided  within
  the  amount  of  the  appropriation  made by law for the maintenance and
  operation of the commission. The  commissioners  and  employees  of  the
  commission  shall  be considered as employees of the legislature for all
  purposes.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 27 - Appointment of Secretaries of Finance and Ways and Means Committees.

§ 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 make, through the chairman  of  the  respective  committees  or
  through  sub-committees  appointed  by  them,  such investigation of the
  various activities of the state as will aid them in their  consideration
  of  the budget submitted by the executive and any further appropriations
  proposed to the legislature. The temporary president of the senate shall
  appoint a secretary for the senate finance committee and the speaker  of
  the  assembly  shall appoint a secretary for the assembly ways and means
  committee. Each appointment  shall  be  evidenced  by  certificate  duly
  executed  by the officer making the appointment, and filed in the office
  of the secretary of state. Such  secretaries  shall  hold  office  until
  their successors are appointed.
2023 New York Laws › LEG - Legislative › Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature › 28 - Compensation, Expenses, Employees.

§ 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,
  traveling and  other  expenses  necessarily  incurred  by  them  in  the
  performance  of  their  duties. The chairman of the finance committee of
  the senate and the chairman of the  ways  and  means  committee  of  the
  assembly may each appoint for the committee of which he is chairman such
  accounting,  clerical  and stenographic employees as may be necessary to
  assist such committee and the  secretaries  thereof  in  performing  the
  duties  prescribed  by  this article. The compensation of such employees
  shall be fixed by the appointing officer within the amount  appropriated
  therefor.
Expenditures  made  from  appropriations  by  the  legislature for the
  senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means  committee  may
  include  studies  and  surveys  and  for  expenses  of  maintenance  and
  operation  including  personal  service  and   the   expenses   of   the
  chairpersons  while  in travel in the performance of committee duties or
  while in Albany during the recess  of  the  legislature,  the  traveling
  expenses  of  the  employees  of  such  committees  while visiting state
  institutions or performing other committee duties, and the  purchase  or
  exchange, maintenance or hiring of automobiles.