Bill Text: NY S04584 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the use of messages of necessity to situations involving a state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S04584 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04584-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4584

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 10, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. PALUMBO, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing  an  amendment to section 14 of article 3 of the constitution,
          in relation to limiting the use of messages of necessity

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 14 of arti-
     2  cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    § 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law  unless  it  shall  have
     4  been  printed  and  upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at
     5  least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless
     6  the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under his or
     7  her hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in his or her  opin-
     8  ion necessitate an immediate vote thereon to respond to a state disaster
     9  emergency, as defined by paragraph b of subdivision two of section twen-
    10  ty  of  the executive law in which case it must nevertheless be upon the
    11  desks of the members in final form, not necessarily printed, before  its
    12  final  passage;  nor shall any bill be passed or become a law, except by
    13  the assent of a majority of the members elected to each  branch  of  the
    14  legislature;  and  upon the last reading of a bill, no amendment thereof
    15  shall be allowed, and the question upon its final passage shall be taken
    16  immediately thereafter, and the ayes and nays entered on the journal.
    17    For purposes of this section, a bill shall be deemed to be printed and
    18  upon the desks of the members if: it is set forth in a legible electron-
    19  ic format by electronic means, and it is available for  review  in  such
    20  format  at the desks of the members. For purposes of this section "elec-
    21  tronic means" means any method of transmission  of  information  between
    22  computers  or  other  machines  designed  for the purpose of sending and
    23  receiving  such  transmissions  and  which:  allows  the  recipient   to
    24  reproduce   the   information   transmitted  in  a  tangible  medium  of
    25  expression; and does not permit additions, deletions or other changes to
    26  be made without leaving an adequate record thereof.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89097-01-3
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     1    § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing be referred
     2  to the first  regular  legislative  session  convening  after  the  next
     3  succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conform-
     4  ity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for 3
     5  months previous to the time of such election.