Assembly Bill A9494

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that the senate shall be composed of 62 senators, each representing 1 county of the state

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A9494 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7631
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 3 §§2 & 4, Constn
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3381, S2861
2013-2014: S4602
2015-2016: S1970

2009-A9494 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the senate shall be composed of 62 senators, each representing 1 county of the state.

2009-A9494 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A9494 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  9494

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CALHOUN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Governmental Operations

            CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

proposing amendments to sections 2 and 4 of article 3 of  the  constitu-
  tion,  in  relation to the number of senators and the apportionment of
  senate districts

  Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That sections 2 and  4  of
article 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
  S 2. The senate shall consist of [fifty] SIXTY-TWO members[, except as
hereinafter  provided].  The  senators [elected in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three  years,
and  their  successors]  shall  be  [chosen]  ELECTED for two years. The
assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty  members.  The  assembly
members [elected in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight,
and their successors,] shall be [chosen] ELECTED for two years.
  S  4. Except as herein otherwise provided, the federal census taken in
the year nineteen hundred thirty and each federal census taken  decenni-
ally  thereafter shall be controlling as to the number of inhabitants in
the state or any part thereof for the purposes of the  apportionment  of
members  of  assembly  and  readjustment  or  alteration of [senate and]
assembly districts next occurring, in so far  as  such  census  and  the
tabulation  thereof  purport to give the information necessary therefor.
The legislature, by law, shall provide for the making and tabulation  by
state  authorities  of  an  enumeration of the inhabitants of the entire
state to be used for such purposes, instead of a federal census, if  the
taking  of  a  federal  census  in any tenth year from the year nineteen
hundred thirty be omitted or if the federal census  fails  to  show  the
number  of  aliens  or  Indians  not  taxed. If a federal census, though
giving the requisite information as to the state at large, fails to give
the information as to  any  civil  or  territorial  divisions  which  is
required  to  be known for such purposes, the legislature, by law, shall
provide for such an enumeration of the inhabitants of such parts of  the
state only as may be necessary, which shall supersede in part the feder-
al  census  and  be used in connection therewith for such purposes.  The
legislature, by law, may provide in its discretion for an enumeration by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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