Bill Text: NY A05104 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Sets a three session time limit for bills in committee; removes bills from a committee after such bill has been in the committee for three legislative sessions and does not allow reconsideration of the bill unless the bill has been amended.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-30 - enacting clause stricken [A05104 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05104-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5104 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 20, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to setting a time limit for bills in committee 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 41-a 2 to read as follows: 3 S 41-A. BILLS IN COMMITTEE FOR MULTIPLE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. EVERY 4 BILL WHICH SHALL REMAIN IN A STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THREE LEGISLATIVE 5 SESSIONS BUT WHICH SHALL NOT HAVE BEEN ACTED ON BEFORE THE END OF THE 6 THIRD LEGISLATIVE SESSION SHALL BE REMOVED FROM THE COMMITTEE AND SHALL 7 NOT BE REFERRED BACK TO A STANDING COMMITTEE FOR RECONSIDERATION UNLESS 8 SUCH BILL HAS BEEN AMENDED. ANY AMENDMENT TO A BILL IN A STANDING 9 COMMITTEE SHALL RESTART THE THREE LEGISLATIVE SESSION TIME LIMIT. 10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, 12 that the senate and assembly shall, by concurrent resolution, adopt 13 rules necessary to implement this act within twenty days after such act 14 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04778-01-3