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 […]
7-C – Member of Assembly Defined.
§ 7-c. Member of assembly defined. The term “member of assembly” shall include assemblyman and assemblywoman.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
3 – Expulsion of Members.
§ 3. Expulsion of members. Each house has the power to expel any of its members, after the report of a committee to inquire into the charges against him shall have been made.
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 […]
5 – Compensation of Members.
§ 5. Compensation of members. 1. Effective January first, two thousand twenty-three, each member of the legislature shall receive a salary of one hundred forty-two thousand dollars per annum. Such salary of a member of the legislature shall be payable in twenty-six bi-weekly installments provided, however, that if legislative passage of the budget as defined […]