Bill Text: NY A01844 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the governor from granting themselves or any person involved with furthering the illegal conduct of the governor a reprieve, commutation or pardon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - opinion referred to judiciary [A01844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01844-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1844

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to section 4 of article 4 of the constitution, in
          relation to prohibiting the governor from granting themselves  or  any
          person  involved with furthering the illegal conduct of the governor a
          reprieve, commutation or pardon

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 4 of  article
     2  4 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    §  4.  The  governor  shall  have the power to grant reprieves, commu-
     4  tations and pardons after conviction, for all  offenses  except  treason
     5  and   cases   of   impeachment,  upon  such  conditions  and  with  such
     6  restrictions and limitations, as [he or  she]  the  governor  may  think
     7  proper,  subject  to such regulations as may be provided by law relative
     8  to the manner of applying for pardons. The governor shall not  have  the
     9  power  to  grant  a reprieve, commutation or pardon to themselves, or to
    10  any persons involved with furthering any illegal or unlawful conduct  of
    11  such  governor.  Upon  conviction  for  treason, the governor shall have
    12  power to suspend the execution of the sentence, until the case shall  be
    13  reported  to  the  legislature at its next meeting, when the legislature
    14  shall either pardon, or commute the sentence, direct  the  execution  of
    15  the  sentence,  or grant a further reprieve. The governor shall annually
    16  communicate to the legislature each case  of  reprieve,  commutation  or
    17  pardon  granted, stating the name of the convict, the crime of which the
    18  convict was convicted, the sentence and its date, and the  date  of  the
    19  commutation, pardon or reprieve.
    20    §  2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
    21  referred  to  the  first regular legislative session convening after the
    22  next succeeding general election of members of  the   assembly, and,  in
    23  conformity    with    section 1 of   article 19 of  the constitution, be
    24  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89053-01-5