Senate Bill S3419

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Enacts the Redistricting Reform Act of 2011; repealer

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • 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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2011-S3419 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5388
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§5-a & 12, rpld §83-m, add Art 6-A §§93 -99, Leg L

2011-S3419 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the Restricting Reform Act of 2011. Establishes an independent redistricting commission to create redistricting plans for congressional and state legislative districts based on decennial federal census, which shall be considered by and voted upon by the state legislature; eliminates the legislative task force on demographic research and reapportionment.

2011-S3419 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S3419 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  3419

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 18, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of the Governor) -- 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  redistricting  of
  congressional,  senate  and  assembly districts; and to repeal section
  83-m of such law relating to the legislative task force on demographic
  research and reapportionment

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  This  act  shall be known and may be cited as the "Redis-
tricting Reform Act of 2011."
  S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 5-a of the legislative law, as added  by
chapter  630  of  the  laws of 1998, the opening paragraph as amended by
section 1 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010,  is  amended  to
read as follows:
  3. Any member of the assembly serving in a special capacity in a posi-
tion set forth in the following schedule shall be paid the allowance set
forth  in such schedule only for the legislative term commencing January
first, two thousand eleven and terminating  December  thirty-first,  two
thousand twelve:

                 ASSEMBLYMEN SERVING IN SPECIAL CAPACITY

Chairman of legislative commission on public management
 systems ........................................................ 12,500
Chairman of legislative commission on science and
 technology ..................................................... 12,500
Co-chairman of the legislative commission on water
 resource needs of New York state and Long Island ......... no allowance
[Co-chairman of the legislative task force on

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD12004-09-1

              

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