Bill Text: NY A04961 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Entitles each member of the legislature to bring one statewide piece of legislation of his or her choosing to the floor for a vote without a home rule message and committee review during each two-year term.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A04961 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04961-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4961

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law, in relation to entitling each
          member of the legislature to bring one statewide piece of  legislation
          of  his  or  her  choosing to the floor for a vote without a home rule
          message and committee review during each two-year term

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall be known and may be cited as the "single
     2  opportunity for legislative equality (SOLE) act".
     3    § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new  section  33-a  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  33-a.  Entitlement to one statewide bill during each two-year term.
     6  Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary,  during  each  two-
     7  year  term  of the legislature, each member shall be entitled to have at
     8  least one statewide piece of legislation, of his or her choosing, exclu-
     9  sive of any bill accompanied by a home  rule  message,  discharged  from
    10  committee  and  brought to the floor for a vote. A member may bring such
    11  bill to the floor for a vote by filing a written notice with  the  clerk
    12  of  senate  desk operations or the index clerk of the assembly on a form
    13  provided by such clerk.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09009-01-3