N.Y. Legislative Law Section 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 chairman of the ways and means committee of the assembly may each appoint for the committee of which he is chairman such accounting, clerical and stenographic employees as may be necessary to assist such committee and the secretaries thereof in performing the duties prescribed by this article. The compensation of such employees shall be fixed by the appointing officer within the amount appropriated therefor. Expenditures made from appropriations by the legislature for the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee may include studies and surveys and for expenses of maintenance and operation including personal service and the expenses of the chairpersons while in travel in the performance of committee duties or while in Albany during the recess of the legislature, the traveling expenses of the employees of such committees while visiting state institutions or performing other committee duties, and the purchase or exchange, maintenance or hiring of automobiles.

Source: Section 28 — Compensation, expenses, employees, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/LEG/28 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Feb. 28, 2026).

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Exemption of members and officers from arrest 3
Expulsion of members 4
Contempts of either house 5
Compensation of members 5–A
Allowances for member serving as an officer of either house of the legislature or in a special capacity therein 5–B
Limit on outside earned income by members 6
Officers and employees of the senate 7
Officers and employees of the assembly 7–A
Legislative library, librarian and assistants 7–B
Legislative emergency health station 7–C
Member of assembly defined 7–D
Employees of the legislature 7–E
Assistive listening system for the deaf and hard of hearing 7–F
Assembly historian 7–G
Senate historian 8
Appointments to be filed with the comptroller 9
Additional employees 10
Compensation of officers and employees 11
Designation of payrolls as annual, session or temporary 12
Authorization of expenditures 15
Duties of secretary and clerk 16
Supplies furnished by secretary and clerk 17
Accountability of secretary and clerk to comptroller 18
Duties of postmasters and assistants 19
Duties of official stenographers 20
Detail of officers and employees for special duties 21
Limitation of legislative expenses 22
Custody of legislative papers and documents 22–A
Reproduction and destruction of certain records, books and papers of the senate 22–B
Destruction and reproductions of assembly books and records 23
Appropriation bills, how referred 24
Legislative bill drafting commission 25
Duties of the commission 27
Appointment of secretaries of finance and ways and means committees 28
Compensation, expenses, employees 29
Sub-committees of finance and ways and means committees 30
Duties of finance and ways and means committees and secretaries 31
Appearances and inquiries in respect to the budget 32
Representation of certain legislative committees during revision of the budget 32–A
Budget 33
Exercise of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly
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Verified:
Feb. 28, 2026

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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