Bill Text: NY A06109 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the tenure of the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, majority leader of the senate, minority leader of the senate, majority leader of the assembly and minority leader of the assembly to 8 years; limits the tenure of the chairman of any single legislative committee to 8 consecutive years.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 23-13)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A06109 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06109-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6109
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF, PAULIN, BARRON, THIELE, BRINDISI, CUSICK,
          McDONALD, RODRIGUEZ, WOERNER, SKARTADOS, MOSLEY, QUART, KEARNS,  SIMA-
          NOWITZ, STECK, MURRAY, LOPEZ, STEC, McLAUGHLIN, GRAF, JOHNS, McKEVITT,
          CROUCH, PALUMBO, BARCLAY, RAIA, FINCH, LUPINACCI, MALLIOTAKIS, FRIEND,
          BRABENEC,  McDONOUGH, WALTER, RA, MONTESANO, HAWLEY, DiPIETRO, CURRAN,
          BLANKENBUSH -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  GARBARINO,  GIGLIO,
          PALMESANO  --  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 any member of the legislature may serve as temporary president
          of the senate, speaker of the assembly, majority leader of the senate,
          majority leader of the assembly, minority leader of the senate, minor-
          ity leader of the assembly or chairman of a legislative 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 two  new  sections
     2  5-b and 5-c to read as follows:
     3    § 5-b. Limitation on tenure of temporary president, speaker and minor-
     4  ity  leaders.  No  member  of  the  legislature shall hold the office of
     5  temporary president of the senate, speaker  of  the  assembly,  majority
     6  leader  of  the senate, majority leader of the assembly, minority leader
     7  of the senate or minority leader of the assembly  for  more  than  eight
     8  years.
     9    §  5-c.  Limitation  on  tenure  of legislative committee chairman. No
    10  member of the legislature shall be the chairman of any  single  legisla-
    11  tive committee for more than eight consecutive years.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05237-01-7