Bill Text: NY A05936 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Enacts term limits for members of the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A05936 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05936-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5936

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in  relation  to  term  limits  for
          legislators

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section  2-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  2-a.  Legislative term limits. Members of the legislature shall not
     4  serve more than four two-year terms in either the senate or  the  assem-
     5  bly.
     6    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
     7  elections held after this act shall have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07386-01-1
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