Bill Text: NY A04568 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the submission to the people the question of whether or not to convene a constitutional convention to answer the question "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same for the sole and limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process, establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and limiting state debt and expenditures?"
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-04 - referred to judiciary [A04568 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04568-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4568
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHROEDER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to provide for the submission to the people of a proposition or
question to convene a constitutional convention
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of article XIX of
2 the New York state constitution, the question "Shall there be a conven-
3 tion to revise the constitution and amend the same for the sole and
4 limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process,
5 establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real
6 property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and
7 limiting state debt and expenditures?" shall be submitted to and decided
8 by the people of the state at the general election to be held in the
9 next succeeding November after the effective date of this act.
10 S 2. If the question stated in section one of this act is answered in
11 the affirmative by a majority of all votes cast for and against it,
12 decided in favor of a convention for such sole and limited purposes, the
13 procedures and provisions of section 2 of article XIX of the constitu-
14 tion shall apply and be implemented, except that such convention shall
15 only consider and submit amendments to the constitution for the sole and
16 limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process,
17 establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real
18 property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and
19 limiting state debt and expenditures.
20 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the
21 provisions of section two of this act shall not take effect unless and
22 until the question proposed in section one of this act shall have been
23 submitted to the people at the general election to be held in the next
24 succeeding November after the effective date of this act, and shall have
25 received a majority of all votes cast for and against it at such
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 election. Upon approval by the people, section two of this act shall
2 take effect immediately. The ballots to be furnished for the use of the
3 voters upon the submission of section one of this act shall be in the
4 form prescribed by the election law, and the proposition or question to
5 be submitted shall be printed in the following form: "Shall there be a
6 convention to revise the constitution and amend the same for the sole
7 and limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget proc-
8 ess, establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a
9 real property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief,
10 and limiting state debt and expenditures?"
