Bill Text: NY S01435 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits legislative bills from embracing more than 1 subject, with the exception of budget bills.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01435 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01435-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1435

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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 legislative law, in relation to requiring  bills  to
          embrace a single subject

          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 embrace one subject. No bill, with the exception of the
     4  budget  bills submitted by the governor pursuant to article seven of the
     5  constitution and amendments thereto, shall be introduced  or  passed  by
     6  the  legislature which embraces more than one subject, and that shall be
     7  expressed in the title.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect March 31, 2023.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03018-01-3