Bill Text: NY A09417 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9417 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Amends the legislative law, in relation to term limits for committee chairs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-15 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A09417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09417-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9417
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 29, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. KATZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to terms of legislative
         committee chairs
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 5-a of the legislative law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. ANY MEMBER OF EITHER HOUSE OF THE LEGISLATURE SERVING AS A  COMMIT-
    4  TEE  CHAIR  OF  ANY COMMITTEE AS ENUMERATED IN THE SCHEDULE SET FORTH IN
    5  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT SERVE IN SUCH CAPACITY AS  THE
    6  CHAIR FOR A TERM LONGER THAN FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS.
    7    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    8  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.
                                                                  LBD14709-01-2