Bill Text: NY S05257 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the governor to appoint a lieutenant-governor subject to confirmation by the legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S05257 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05257-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5257 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 18, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the appointment of a lieutenant-governor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 43 of the public officers law, as renumbered by 2 chapter 649 of the laws of 1922, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 43. Filling other vacancies. 1. If a vacancy shall occur, otherwise 4 than by expiration of term, with no provision of law for filling the 5 same, if the office be elective, the governor shall appoint a person to 6 execute the duties thereof until the vacancy shall be filled by an 7 election. But if the term of such officer shall expire with the calendar 8 year in which the appointment shall be made, or if the office be appoin- 9 tive, the appointee shall hold for the residue of the term. 10 2. In the case of a vacancy in the office of the lieutenant-governor, 11 the governor shall nominate a lieutenant-governor who shall take office 12 upon confirmation by separate majority votes in each house of the state 13 legislature. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03935-01-9
