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Assembly Bill A7026

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Limits tenure of temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leaders and committee chairs

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2013-A7026 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3556
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยงยง5-b & 5-c, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11233, S3139
2011-2012: A2415, S4877
2015-2016: A4677, S2722
2017-2018: A6109, S1229
2019-2020: S2010
2021-2022: S3874
2023-2024: S1596
2025-2026: S1583

2013-A7026 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the tenure of the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate and minority leader of the assembly to 12 years; limits the tenure of the chairman of any single legislative committee to 8 years.

2013-A7026 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7026

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 30, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GALEF, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  McDONOUGH, TENNEY -- read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
  Governmental Operations

AN  ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to limiting the amount
  of time any member of the legislature may serve as temporary president
  of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate,
  minority leader of the assembly or chairman of a legislative committee

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

  Section  1.  The legislative law is amended by adding two new sections
5-b and 5-c to read as follows:
  S 5-B. LIMITATION ON TENURE OF TEMPORARY PRESIDENT, SPEAKER AND MINOR-
ITY LEADERS. NO MEMBER OF THE  LEGISLATURE  SHALL  HOLD  THE  OFFICE  OF
TEMPORARY  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE, SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, MINORITY
LEADER OF THE SENATE OR MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY  FOR  MORE  THAN
TWELVE YEARS.
  S  5-C.  LIMITATION  ON  TENURE  OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN. NO
MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE SHALL BE THE CHAIRMAN OF ANY  SINGLE  LEGISLA-
TIVE  COMMITTEE,  EXCEPT  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES, FOR MORE THAN EIGHT
YEARS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06472-01-3

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