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S 1722: Provides for salary schedule parity for positions designated managerial or confidential with comparable union-represented positions.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified May 13, 2026

What S 1722 does, verified May 13, 2026

The bill aims to establish salary schedule parity in the state of New York. It requires employees in managerial or confidential positions to be paid salary grade ranges not less than those of comparable union-represented positions. This means that current state employees in these positions will not be reduced in salary as a result of this change. The new law will take effect on the first of April next year.

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Last action: RECOMMITTED TO FINANCE (2026-04-21)Alert me
Recent actions3 total · showing 3
Apr. 21, 2026RECOMMITTED TO FINANCE
Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
Jan. 13, 2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 13, 2025 · 244 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1722 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to salary schedule parity 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. Salary schedule parity. Notwithstanding any other provision of 4 law to the contrary, employees in positions in the competitive, non-com- 5 petitive, and labor classes of the classified service of the state of 6 New York designated managerial or confidential under article fourteen of 7 this chapter shall be paid salary grade ranges not less than those of 8 comparable salary grade ranges in the salary schedules of union-repre- 9 sented positions that are equally or similarly graded. No current state 10 employee designated managerial or confidential shall be reduced in 11 current or prospective salary as a result. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 13 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. LBD04548-01-5 
Text of S 1722 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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