Bill Text: NY S04877 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the tenure of the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate and minority leader of the assembly to 12 years; limits the tenure of the chairman of any single legislative committee to 8 years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04877 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04877-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4877
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 28, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO, DeFRANCISCO, FUSCHILLO, GOLDEN, GRISANTI,
         LARKIN, LAVALLE, MAZIARZ, O'MARA, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, SEWARD, ZELDIN
         -- 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 limiting the  amount
         of time any member of the legislature may serve as temporary president
         of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate,
         minority leader of the assembly or chairman of a legislative committee
         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 two  new  sections
    2  5-b and 5-c to read as follows:
    3    S 5-B. LIMITATION ON TENURE OF TEMPORARY PRESIDENT, SPEAKER AND MINOR-
    4  ITY  LEADERS.  NO  MEMBER  OF  THE  LEGISLATURE SHALL HOLD THE OFFICE OF
    5  TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, SPEAKER  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY,  MINORITY
    6  LEADER  OF  THE  SENATE OR MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY FOR MORE THAN
    7  TWELVE YEARS.
    8    S 5-C. LIMITATION ON TENURE  OF  LEGISLATIVE  COMMITTEE  CHAIRMAN.  NO
    9  MEMBER  OF  THE LEGISLATURE SHALL BE THE CHAIRMAN OF ANY SINGLE LEGISLA-
   10  TIVE COMMITTEE, EXCEPT THE COMMITTEE  ON  RULES,  FOR  MORE  THAN  EIGHT
   11  YEARS.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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