Bill Text: NY S01540 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that members of the legislature shall not serve more than five two-year terms in either house; regardless of terms, service is limited to ten years in each house and no more than twenty years of service, in the aggregate, as a state legislator.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 1540A [S01540 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01540-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1540--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations  and
          Government  Operations  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        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. Any individual may serve a maximum  of
     4  five  two-year  terms for the state assembly. Any individual may serve a
     5  maximum of five two-year terms for the state  senate.  No  person  shall
     6  serve  more than ten years in each house. No person shall have more than
     7  twenty years of service, in the aggregate, as a state legislator.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2022; only terms  commenced
     9  on  or  after such date shall be counted toward an individual's years of
    10  service.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02005-02-0