Bill Text: NY S09556 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that any review of apportionment by the legislature shall be brought in the supreme court of Albany county; provides that such action must be commenced within fourteen days after the apportionment at issue becomes a law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09556 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09556-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9556 IN SENATE September 14, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend chapter 773 of the laws of 1911 relating to providing for a procedure for the prompt review of an apportionment by the legislature or other body, in relation to bringing any such review to the supreme court of Albany county The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Sections 1 and 5 of chapter 773 of the laws of 1911 relat- 2 ing to providing for a procedure for the prompt review of an apportion- 3 ment by the legislature or other body, are amended to read as follows: 4 Section 1. An apportionment by the legislature shall be subject to 5 review by the supreme court of Albany county at the suit of any citizen, 6 upon the petition of any citizen to the supreme court [where any such7petitioner resides] of Albany county and upon such service thereof upon 8 the attorney-general, the president of the senate, the speaker of the 9 assembly and the governor, as a justice of the supreme court of Albany 10 county may direct. 11 § 5. [No limitation of the time for commencing an action shall affect12any proceeding hereinbefore mentioned, or any] An action under this act 13 must be commenced within fourteen days after the apportionment at issue 14 shall become law. Any appeal in any existing action or proceeding in 15 which the validity of an apportionment is or may be in issue, if 16 commenced within the period during which such apportionment is in force 17 may continue; and nothing in this act shall impair any existing remedy 18 by which the validity of an apportionment may be determined. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16123-01-2