New York Assembly Bill 3088 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-06-23 - enacting clause stricken
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Article 20 of the Constitution is renumbered to be Article 21 and a new Article 20 is added. This amendment would provide electors with right of initiative and referendum. An initiative is the power of the electors to propose amendments to the Constitution and to propose laws and to adopt or reject them. The initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of a proposed amendment to the Constitution and is certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to nine per centum of the number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial election. An indirect initiative is the power of the electors to present proposed laws to the Legislature for its action on such proposed laws and is, in the event of the Legislature's failure to pass such proposed laws in the form presented, the power of the electors to adopt or reject the same. The indirect initiative may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State, not less than ten days prior to the commencement of any Session of the Legislature, a petition that sets forth the text of a proposed law and is certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to three per centum of the number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial election. A referendum is the power of the electors to approve or reject certain laws or parts of law. A referendum measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to five per centum of the votes cast for all candidates for Governor in the last gubernatorial election requiring that such law be submitted to the electors as herein provided.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to the constitution, in relation to providing the electors with the power of initiative, indirect initiative and referendum

Asm. Anthony Seminerio [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-06-23		enacting clause stricken
2009-02-19		opinion referred to judiciary
2009-01-27		to attorney-general for opinion
2009-01-22		referred to judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A03088&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A03088&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A03088