Bill Text: NY S01706 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship to be brought to the floor for a vote to be taken thereon.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01706 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01706-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1706 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, AVELLA, KRUEGER, LATIMER -- 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 bills with a thresh- old level of co-sponsorship 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 33-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 33-a. Bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship. 1. Any bill 4 introduced in the assembly shall, upon being co-sponsored by seventy-six 5 or more members, be brought to the floor of the house for a vote to be 6 taken thereon during the legislative session in which it was introduced. 7 2. Any bill introduced in the senate shall, upon being co-sponsored by 8 thirty-two or more members, be brought to the floor of the house for a 9 vote to be taken thereon during the legislative session in which it was 10 introduced. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01206-02-7
