Bill Text: NY A08963 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the filling of vacancies in the office of attorney general or comptroller be done by a two-thirds majority of each house.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-31 - referred to governmental operations [A08963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08963-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8963

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to the filling of
          vacancies in the office of attorney general or comptroller

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

     1    Section  1. Section 41 of the public officers law, as amended by chap-
     2  ter 91 of the laws of 1928, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 41. Vacancies filled  by  legislature.  When  a  vacancy  occurs  or
     4  exists[,  other than by removal,] in the office of comptroller or attor-
     5  ney-general, or a resignation of either such officer to take  effect  at
     6  any future day shall have been made while the legislature is in session,
     7  the  two  houses  thereof,  by  [joint ballot] a two-thirds vote in each
     8  house, shall appoint a person to fill such actual or prospective  vacan-
     9  cy.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14056-01-4