Bill Text: NY S06857 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires bills to include a single object or purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06857 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06857-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6857
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring  bills  to
          include a single object or purpose
          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  49
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  49.  Bills to include a single object or purpose. No bill, with the
     4  exception of budget bills for appropriation or reappropriation submitted
     5  by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution and amend-
     6  ments thereto, shall be introduced or passed by  the  legislature  which
     7  embraces more than one subject.
     8    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     9  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.
                                                                   LBD13361-01-7