Bill Text: NY S09556 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9556

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 14, 2022
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        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 such
     7  petitioner 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 affect
    12  any 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