Bill Text: NY A06245 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-17 - to attorney-general for opinion [A06245 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06245-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6245
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 4, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Judiciary
                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
        ratifying  the  proposed  amendment  to  the  Constitution of the United
          States relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age
     1    WHEREAS, at the first session of  the  sixty-eighth  Congress  it  was
     2  resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
     3  of  America  in  Congress Assembled (two-thirds of each house concurring
     4  therein), that the following article be proposed as an amendment to  the
     5  Constitution  of  the United States, which shall be valid to all intents
     6  and purposes as a part of the said Constitution  when  ratified  by  the
     7  Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, viz.:
     8                                   ARTICLE
     9    Section  1.  The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and
    10  prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.
    11    Section 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this arti-
    12  cle except that the operation of State laws shall be  suspended  to  the
    13  extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
    14    Now, therefore, be it
    15    Resolved,  That  the  legislature of the State of New York does hereby
    16  ratify the above recited proposed amendment to the Constitution  of  the
    17  United States; and be it further,
    18    Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  State  be requested to transmit a
    19  certified copy of this concurrent resolution  to  the  Administrator  of
    20  General Services of the United States of America.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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