N.Y. Legislative Law § 28: Compensation, expenses, employees

§ 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.