Bill Text: NY A03256 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3256 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 27-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A03256 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03256-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3256

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WALSH,  MONTESANO,  McDONOUGH, RA, DiPIETRO,
          HAWLEY,  BLANKENBUSH,  MORINELLO,  J. M. GIGLIO,  BRABENEC,   BARCLAY,
          M. MILLER,  NORRIS,  ASHBY, SALKA, PALMESANO, TAGUE, SMULLEN -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BYRNES, DeSTEFANO, MANKTELOW  --  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.
                                                                   LBD03838-01-1