Provides for the submission to the people the question of whether or not to convene a constitutional convention to answer the question "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same for the sole and limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process, establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and limiting state debt and expenditures?"
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I N A S S E M B L Y
July 6, 2010
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Schroeder)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to provide for the submission to the people of a proposition or
question to convene a constitutional convention
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of article XIX of
the New York state constitution, the question "Shall there be a conven-
tion to revise the constitution and amend the same for the sole and
limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process,
establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real
property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and
limiting state debt and expenditures?" shall be submitted to and decided
by the people of the state at the general election to be held in the
next succeeding November after the effective date of this act.
S 2. If the question stated in section one of this act is answered in
the affirmative by a majority of all votes cast for and against it,
decided in favor of a convention for such sole and limited purposes, the
procedures and provisions of section 2 of article XIX of the constitu-
tion shall apply and be implemented, except that such convention shall
only consider and submit amendments to the constitution for the sole and
limited purposes of providing for reform of the state budget process,
establishing term limits for all state elected officers, creating a real
property tax cap, providing state mandate and regulatory relief, and
limiting state debt and expenditures.
S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the
provisions of section two of this act shall not take effect unless and
until the question proposed in section one of this act shall have been
submitted to the people at the general election to be held in the next
succeeding November after the effective date of this act, and shall have
received a majority of all votes cast for and against it at such
election. Upon approval by the people, section two of this act shall
take effect immediately. The ballots to be furnished for the use of the
voters upon the submission of section one of this act shall be in the
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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