Bill Text: NY S03800 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires bills to include a single object or purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S03800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03800-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3800
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Investigations  and
          Government Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring bills to
          include a single object or purpose
          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 49
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 49. Bills to include a single object or purpose. No bill,  with  the
     4  exception of budget bills for appropriation or reappropriation submitted
     5  by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution and amend-
     6  ments  thereto,  shall  be introduced or passed by the legislature which
     7  embraces more than one subject.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01793-01-9