Bill Text: NY A06804 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes term limits for legislators and statewide elected officials of 8 years and legislative staff, executive staff, and employees of statewide elected officials for 12 years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A06804 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06804-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6804 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to term limits for legislators, legislative staff, statewide elected officials and the staff of such officials 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 2-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 2-a. Legislative term limits. 1. Members of the legislature shall 4 not serve more than four two-year terms in both the senate or the assem- 5 bly. 6 2. Statewide elected officials shall not serve more than two four-year 7 terms in the same statewide elected position. 8 3. Persons serving as staff members for legislators in either the 9 senate or the assembly, as staff members for the executive, or as offi- 10 cers and employees of statewide elected officials shall not serve more 11 than twelve years in total as a legislative staff member, executive 12 staff member, or officer or employee of a statewide elected official, 13 respectively. Such restriction shall not prevent a person from serving 14 twelve years as a legislative staff member followed by twelve years as 15 an executive staff member, or as an officer or employee of a statewide 16 elected official, or any combination thereof. For purposes of this 17 subdivision, "staff member" shall mean any person serving as a full or 18 part time employee on the executive staff, as a full or part time 19 employee on a legislator's staff, whether in the city of Albany or a 20 district office, as an employee of the central staff of the senate or 21 the central staff of the assembly, or any person who is serving as an 22 at-will employee for a legislator or the executive. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; only terms commenced on 24 or after such date shall be counted toward an individual's years of 25 service. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09794-05-9