Bill Text: NY A10148 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Imposes term limits on members of the legislature such that no person can serve in a house of the legislature for more than six consecutive terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - to attorney-general for opinion [A10148 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10148-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10148

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to section 2 of article 3 of the constitution, in
          relation to imposing term limits on members of the legislature

     1    Section  1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 2 of article
     2  3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    § 2. The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as  hereinafter
     4  provided.  The  senators [elected in the year one thousand eight hundred
     5  and ninety-five shall hold their offices  for  three  years,  and  their
     6  successors]  shall be [chosen] elected for terms of two  years provided,
     7  however, no senator shall serve for more than six consecutive terms. The
     8  assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty  members.  The  assembly
     9  members [elected in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight,
    10  and  their successors,] shall be [chosen] elected for terms of two years
    11  provided, however, no assembly member shall  serve  for  more  than  six
    12  consecutive terms.
    13    § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendments be
    14  referred  to  the  first regular legislative session convening after the
    15  next succeeding general election of members of  the  assembly,  and,  in
    16  conformity  with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution, be
    17  published for three months previous to the time of such election.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89130-01-4