Bill Text: NY A01409 | 2019-2020 | 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 26-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A01409 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01409-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1409 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALSH, JOHNS, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH, RAIA, RA, STEC, JAFFEE, LAWRENCE, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, BLANKENBUSH, MORINELLO, GIGLIO, PALUMBO, BRABENEC, M. L. MILLER, BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental 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. LBD02831-01-9
