What's happening
This bill appropriates $63,692.32 to the Frank K. Skartados Living Trust for the unpaid 2018 salary of the late Assemblymember Skartados.
Why it matters
Honors service and provides for survivors. By appropriating the remainder of Assemblymember Skartados's 2018 salary to his estate, the bill recognizes his public service and ensures that his family or designated beneficiaries receive compensation he would have earned had he not passed away mid-term.
Sets a precedent for handling mid-term deaths. The bill clarifies and reinforces state policy on how to address salary payments when a legislator dies before the end of their term, ensuring future cases are treated with consistency and fairness.
Reflects fiscal responsibility and transparency. The specific appropriation amount and public legislative process ensure that state payments to deceased officials aren’t handled informally, but are openly authorized and tracked, maintaining transparency in state expenditures.
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Pay Skartados Estate Owed Salary
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
History
- Signed chap.77
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- 3rd reading cal.1633
- Substituted for S8862
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.1082
- Reported
- Referred to ways and means
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Pay Deceased Lawmaker's Estate
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor William J. Larkin Jr.
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10853
IN ASSEMBLY
May 23, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, SKOUFIS, CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT making an appropriation to the "Frank K. Skartados Living Trust", on behalf of the late Frank K. Skartados, member of the Assembly from the 104th assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for the portion of the year 2018
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The sum of sixty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirty-two cents ($63,692.32) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury to the credit of the state purposes account not otherwise appropriated, for payment to the trust referred to as the "Frank K. Skartados Living Trust", on behalf of the late Frank K. Skartados, a member of the Assembly from the 104th assembly district, who died on the fifteenth day of April, 2018, for the balance due of the unpaid annual compensation which would have been earned by him had he continued to live and serve as such member until December 31, 2018. The amount hereby appropriated shall be payable to the trust referred to as the "Frank K. Skartados Living Trust", on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on a voucher certified or approved in the manner prescribed by law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15772-01-8
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