Bill Text: NY S01267 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that bills which have reached order of third reading but which shall not have been acted on by the house before the end of the first year of the two-year legislative session shall maintain its place on the order of third reading until the house shall act on such bill or until the end of the two-year legislative session; sets forth exceptions for budget bills, bills requiring a home rule message, constitutional amendments and bills requiring a fiscal note.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01267 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01267-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1267
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to  the  continuity  of
          legislative sessions
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds  that  while  New
     2  York  and  most  other states operate on two-year legislative calendars,
     3  only the legislature of the state  of  New  York  interrupts  procedural
     4  continuity  of  legislation  during  the two-year session. This practice
     5  commonly requires the reconsideration  and  readoption  of  hundreds  of
     6  bills  during  the  second  year  which  were  previously considered and
     7  adopted during the first year.  The  legislature  determines  that  this
     8  practice  is  usually  unnecessary  and  expends time and taxpayer money
     9  which could be better spent addressing other important legislative busi-
    10  ness. The legislature therefore declares  its  intent  to  preserve  the
    11  procedural  continuity  of  all  bills  within  the biennial legislative
    12  session.
    13    § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new  section  42-a  to
    14  read as follows:
    15    §  42-a. Continuity of legislative sessions. 1. Upon passage of a bill
    16  by one house of the legislature, such bill shall automatically  be  sent
    17  to the appropriate committee in the other house for action on such bill,
    18  where that house may act on the bill at any time during the remainder of
    19  the biennial legislative session.
    20    2.  No bill reported by a standing committee of the senate or assembly
    21  shall be referred back to that committee.
    22    3. Every bill which shall have reached the order of third reading  but
    23  which  shall  not  have been acted on by the house before the end of the
    24  first year of the two-year legislative session shall maintain its  place
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  on  the order of third reading until the house shall act on such bill or
     2  until the end of the two-year legislative session.
     3    4.  The  provisions  of  this  section shall not apply to budget bills
     4  introduced  by  the  governor  pursuant  to   article   seven   of   the
     5  constitution, bills requiring a home rule message from one or more local
     6  governments  pursuant  to  article  nine of the constitution, concurrent
     7  resolutions to amend the constitution pursuant to  article  nineteen  of
     8  the  constitution or bills subject to the provisions of section fifty of
     9  this article.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    11  ing  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, that the
    12  senate and assembly shall, by concurrent resolution, adopt rules  neces-
    13  sary  to implement this act within twenty days after such act shall have
    14  become a law.