New York A 8521: Relates to comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential

Status: REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 8521

Sponsors: Stacey Pheffer Amato, John T. McDonald III

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A08521 Summary:

BILL NOA08521 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07655

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SPONSORPheffer Amato

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COSPNSRMcDonald

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §137, Civ Serv L

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Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential which shall not be withheld unless an employee has received a formal written performance evaluation rating of unsatisfactory or its equivalent.

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BILL NOA08521 

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05/20/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8521

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to comparable salary
 and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confi-
 dential

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
 2 137 to read as follows:
 3 § 137. Comparable salary and other benefits. Notwithstanding any other
 4 provision of law to the contrary, state employees designated managerial
 5 or confidential under article fourteen of this chapter shall receive
 6 performance advancement adjustments equivalent to one sixth of the sala-
 7 ry range for such employee's salary grade on April first of each fiscal
 8 year following completion of each year of service in grade. As a result
 9 of such adjustment, no employee salary shall exceed the job rate of
 10 their salary grade. Performance advancement adjustments due any manage-
 11 rial or confidential employee shall not be withheld unless an employee
 12 has received a formal written performance evaluation rating of unsatis-
 13 factory or its equivalent.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 15 the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11473-01-5

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