Sentences with phrase «committee leadership stipends»

First, she confirmed the Times Union's Tuesday story that deputy conference leader Sen. Michael Gianaris, D - Queens, and Senate Democratic staffers met with the Albany County district attorney's office last week to discuss an ongoing controversy over several committee leadership stipends being diverted to certain IDC and Republican senators.

The payments were revealed last week by The New York Times, which reported that IDC members have received committee leadership stipends, often called lulus, even though they were vice chairs, not chairs, of the committees they serve on.

Not exact matches

At the Brennan Center in 2004, Creelan wrote what has become an ur - text of state government dysfunction, which was especially withering of the arrangement in which state lawmakers receive «lulus» or stipends for leadership and committee posts.

Falsely reporting senators as committee chairs so they can receive lucrative stipends has shined a light on a more commonplace practice in both the Senate and Assembly: The so - called lulu system of doling out extra pay for leadership positions.

An imbroglio over cash stipends for state senators with committee leadership positions veered into the legal weeds as attorneys for mainline Democrats and the Senate's top Republican offered differing opinions on the legality of the payments.

Officials in the state Senate insist vice chairs are eligible for committee stipends normally afforded to chairman or to those with leadership positions, pointing to wording in a state legislative law that allows for the payments.

The arrangement allows vice chairs of committees to accept chair stipends that would normally go toward the panel's leader, but in those cases the actual committee chair receives more money from another leadership title.

Senators holding leadership posts or committee chair assignments receive stipends.

But, government reform groups are in favor of the pay raise, as long as it is accompanied by reforms — including banning or severely restricting outside income (which factored into the corruption convictions of two former legislative leaders), and eliminating extra stipends for committee chairs and leadership posts.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

Senators may accept one stipend for either a committee chair position or leadership post.

Some lawmakers earn extra stipends for leadership or committee chair posts.

On top of that, members can be given leadership stipends for positions such as committee chairmanships that range from $ 9,000 to $ 41,500 per year.

State lawmakers earn a base salary of $ 79,500, but many earn more through legislative stipends granted by leadership titles or committee chairmanships.

And Silver hasn't formally named the chairs of a score of legislative committees and leadership posts, which gives him instant leverage over the conference, as the titles each carry cash stipends worth thousands of dollars.

State legislators receive a base pay of $ 79,500, though many lawmakers also get extra stipends for leading committees or serving in party leadership posts, which boost average pay closer to $ 100,000.

Many also receive extra stipends for committee chairs or leadership posts.

An imbroglio over cash stipends for state senators with committee leadership positions veered into the legal weeds Monday as attorneys for mainline Democrats and the Senate's top Republican offered differing opinions on the legality of the payments.

The issue is a simple one: Many lawmakers get stipends, called a «lulu» in the language of Albany, for chairing a committee or holding a leadership slot.

He said his chamber does not rearrange stipends so that lawmakers beyond committee chairs or those in leadership can get higher stipends.

Ritchie said she was asked by leadership if she wanted to be deputy vice chair of the Health Committee, a position that comes with a stipend, and agreed.

Senior legislators are also rewarded with «lulus,» which are stipends for chairing committees or holding other leadership positions.

Lerner says if the pay is raised to $ 113,000 a year or more, then all of the extra stipends given to committee chairs and for leadership posts should also be eliminated.

Many lawmakers also receive significant stipends for leadership titles or work chairing standing committees.

The actual chair of the Transportation Committee, Sen. Joe Robach, instead accepts a higher stipend for holding a leadership post as the secretary of the Senate Majority Conference.

The actual Chair of the Transportation Committee, Senator Joe Robach, instead accepts a higher stipend for holding a leadership post as the Secretary of the Senate Majority Conference.

State lawmakers earn $ 79,500 a year, plus extra stipends for committee chair posts and leadership positions.