Bill Text: NY S03922 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires approval by 2/3 vote of membership of the senate and assembly voting separately to increase or decrease any tax rate, impose a new state tax, extend or delete existing state tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S03922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03922-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3922

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PALUMBO,  OBERACKER,  WALCZYK  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Judiciary

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing  an  amendment to section 14 of article 3 of the constitution,
          in relation to the procedure for voting increases in the rate of state
          taxes

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 14 of arti-
     2  cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    § 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law  unless  it  shall  have
     4  been  printed  and  upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at
     5  least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless
     6  the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified,  under  [his
     7  or her] their hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in [his or
     8  her]  the  governor's  opinion necessitate an immediate vote thereon, in
     9  which case it must nevertheless be upon the  desks  of  the  members  in
    10  final form, not necessarily printed, before its final passage; nor shall
    11  any  bill,  except as provided herein, be passed or become a law, except
    12  by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each branch of the
    13  legislature; nor shall any bill which increases,  extends,  imposes,  or
    14  revives  any  tax,  fee, assessment, surcharge or any other such levy or
    15  collection, except any bill which results from the  passage  of  a  home
    16  rule  message  pursuant to section two of article nine of this constitu-
    17  tion, be passed or become a law, except by the assent of  two-thirds  of
    18  the members elected to each branch of the legislature voting separately;
    19  and  upon  the  last  reading  of  a bill, no amendment thereof shall be
    20  allowed, and the question upon its final passage shall  be  taken  imme-
    21  diately thereafter, and the ayes and nays entered on the journal.
    22    For purposes of this section, a bill shall be deemed to be printed and
    23  upon the desks of the members if: it is set forth in a legible electron-
    24  ic  format  by  electronic means, and it is available for review in such
    25  format at the desks of the members. For purposes of this section  "elec-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89078-01-5
        S. 3922                             2

     1  tronic  means"  means  any method of transmission of information between
     2  computers or other machines designed for  the  purpose  of  sending  and
     3  receiving   such  transmissions  and  which:  allows  the  recipient  to
     4  reproduce   the   information   transmitted  in  a  tangible  medium  of
     5  expression; and does not permit additions, deletions or other changes to
     6  be made without leaving an adequate record thereof.
     7    § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the  foregoing  amendment
     8  be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
     9  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
    10  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
    11  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.