S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4816 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 8, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KOLB, BURLING, BUTLER, CALHOUN, CORWIN, CROUCH, GIGLIO, MOLINARO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, DUPREY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to limiting the amount of time a legislator may serve as a legislative leader 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 5-b 2 to read as follows: 3 S 5-B. LIMITS ON TIME A LEGISLATOR MAY SERVE AS A LEGISLATIVE LEADER. 4 NO MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE MAY BE ELECTED TO SERVE MORE THAN FOUR 5 CONSECUTIVE TWO YEAR TERMS AS THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, 6 MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, MINORITY LEADER 7 OF THE ASSEMBLY OR THE CHAIRPERSON OF ANY SENATE OR ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 9 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. LBD05522-01-1