Bill Text: NY A03277 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that bills which have reached order of third reading but which shall not have been acted on by the house before the end of the first year of the two-year legislative session shall maintain its place on the order of third reading until the house shall act on such bill or until the end of the two-year legislative session unless such bill shall have been amended, in which case such bill may be referred back to a standing committee for reconsideration; sets forth exceptions for budget bills, bills requiring a home rule message, constitutional amendments and bills requiring a fiscal note.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-19)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03277 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03277-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3277 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, CAHILL, LUPARDO, JAFFEE, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER, KAVANAGH, CUSICK, PAULIN, McDONALD, BUCHWALD, WOERNER, MAYER, STECK, RICHARDSON, ABINANTI, SKARTADOS, BLAKE, RAIA, SEPULVEDA, HAWLEY, GIGLIO, MURRAY, LUPINACCI, BRABENEC, JOHNS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, COLTON, CROUCH, FINCH, FITZPATRICK, FRIEND, HIKIND, KOLB, LIFTON, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, OAKS, PALMESANO, PEOPLES-STOKES, PERRY, RA, ROSENTHAL, SALA- DINO, SIMON, STEC, THIELE, TITONE, WRIGHT, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the continuity of legislative sessions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that while New 2 York and most other states operate on two-year legislative calendars, 3 only the legislature of the state of New York interrupts procedural 4 continuity of legislation during the two-year session. This practice 5 commonly requires the reconsideration and readoption of hundreds of 6 bills during the second year which were previously considered and 7 adopted during the first year. The legislature determines that this 8 practice is usually unnecessary and expends time and taxpayer money 9 which could be better spent addressing other important legislative busi- 10 ness. The legislature therefore declares its intent to preserve the 11 procedural continuity of all bills within the biennial legislative 12 session. 13 § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 42-a to 14 read as follows: 15 § 42-a. Continuity of legislative sessions. 1. Upon passage of a bill 16 by one house of the legislature, such bill shall automatically be sent 17 to the appropriate committee in the other house for action on such bill, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02414-01-7A. 3277 2 1 where that house may act on the bill at any time during the remainder of 2 the biennial legislative session. 3 2. No bill reported by a standing committee of the senate or assembly 4 shall be referred back to that committee unless such bill shall have 5 been amended. 6 3. Every bill which shall have reached the order of third reading but 7 which shall not have been acted on by the house before the end of the 8 first year of the two-year legislative session shall maintain its place 9 on the order of third reading until the house shall act on such bill or 10 until the end of the two-year legislative session unless such bill shall 11 have been amended, in which case such bill may be referred back to a 12 standing committee for reconsideration. 13 4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to budget bills 14 introduced by the governor pursuant to article seven of the 15 constitution, bills requiring a home rule message from one or more local 16 governments pursuant to article nine of the constitution, concurrent 17 resolutions to amend the constitution pursuant to article nineteen of 18 the constitution or bills subject to the provisions of section fifty of 19 this article. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 21 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, that the 22 senate and assembly shall, by concurrent resolution, adopt rules neces- 23 sary to implement this act within twenty days after such act shall have 24 become a law.