§ 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.
§ 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 […]
§ 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 assembly may include provision for district offices for members, acquisition and operation of electronic data processing and telecommunications equipment, rentals and leases, materials, supplies and […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 the clerk of the assembly, or such other officers or employees of the assembly as the speaker of the assembly shall designate, […]
§ 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, […]
§ 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 debates of such body and in the committee of the whole thereof.
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 of such house, and those presented to it; and shall cause all such papers and documents in his charge to be so […]
§ 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 of the following described records, books and papers on file with or in the custody of […]
§ 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 the following described records, books and papers on file with or in the custody of such officers or employees to […]
§ 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.
§ 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 […]
§ 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 of either house of the legislature; 2. Advise as to the constitutionality, consistency or effect of proposed legislation upon request of a member or […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 of the committee on finance appointed under the rules of the senate and the chairman of the committee on ways […]
