New York Assembly Bill 10165 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: Introduced on March 9 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-09 - referred to cities
Pending: Assembly Cities Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Section 1 amends subdivision 5 of S36 of the municipal home rule law by adding a new paragraph b-1 to allow the New York City Council, by a two-thirds vote, to block a proposal made by a charter revision commission from being placed on the ballot. Section 2 amends section 36 of the municipal home rule law by adding subdivision 4-a. This section would require the mayor to choose the charter revision commission from at least the nominations of the following: the comptroller, public advocate, the borough presidents acting together, and one nominated by each of the borough delegations to the city council. No member of the commission may be an officer or employee of the City or an officer of a political party, a registered lobbyist or employee of a registered lobbyist. Commission members may not make contributions to campaigns of people seeking or holding city office. The commission members will be subject to the conflict of interest provisions in the charter. If charter revision commission is created after May 15th, the commission may not submit proposals until the following calendar year without city council approval at least 90 days prior to .the year's general election. Proposals for changes shall be separately identified on the ballot, to the maximum extent possible. Section 3 of the bill amends subdivision 4 of section 36 of the municipal home rule law such that in a city of one million-or more the charter commission shall consist of not less than 9 members nor more than seventeen members. Section 4 amends the law to allow for the officers and employees of a city of one million or more to be prohibited from serving on a charter commission.

Authorizes the city council in cities with a population of one million or more from preventing a proposed new charter or amendments from being placed on the ballot for submission to electors and promotes representative charter commissions.

Asm. Inez Barron [D]	Asm. Michael Benedetto [D]	Asm. William Boyland [D]	Asm. James Brennan [D]
Asm. Marcos Crespo [D]	Asm. Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Asm. Vanessa Gibson [D]	Asm. Richard Gottfried [D]
Asm. Rhoda Jacobs [D]	Asm. Alan Maisel [D]	Asm. Joan Millman [D]	Asm. Robert Reilly [D]
Asm. Peter Rivera [D]	Asm. Annette Robinson [D]	Asm. Mark Weprin [D]	Asm. Keith Wright [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-09		referred to cities

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A10165&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A10165&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A10165