New York legislators want to be paid, even if the budget is late

Although late budgets are not new in New York, one thing has always maintained talks in the future: until an agreement is concluded, state legislators have no salary.

Carl E. Heastie, the president of the State Assembly, wants to change this.

With the budgetary talks of this year now a week after the deadline of April 1, Heastie introduced a bill to reduce the lever of a governor to force legislative leaders to achieve a budget agreement by mainly retaining their salary.

The question in question is the long -standing practice of the controversial political priorities of governors – such as criminal justice reforms or the number of schools to charter – in the budgetary negotiations of the state which they supervise.

“Governors can throw what they want – they are still paid,” Heastie said. “But then, if the Legislative Assembly takes its prerogative to want to have his say in politics, we lack time, and they say to each other:” Oops, you are not paid. “”

Under the proposal of Mr. Heastie, the legislators would only be unpaid during the budgetary talks of overtime if the negotiations remained without a policy and anchored in tax matters.

He said the proposal, reported for the first time by Gothamist, would ensure that the government’s executive and legislative branches were on a uniform field of state policy.