Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|
---|---|
Jan 06, 2016 | referred to election law |
Apr 27, 2015 | referred to election law |
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed/Vetoed by Governor
Your Voice
Actions
Co-Sponsors
Rebecca Seawright
Phil Steck
Felix Ortiz
Sandy Galef
Multi-Sponsors
Inez Barron
John Ceretto
Erik Dilan
Steven Englebright
A7176 (ACTIVE) - Details
A7176 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Concerns the application of the legislature of the state of New York petitioning the Congress of the United States of America to call a national constitutional convention to propose amendments in order to address concerns raised by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 130 S.Ct. 876.
A7176 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7176 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 27, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT on the application of the legislature of the state of New York petitioning the Congress of the United States of America to call a national constitutional convention to propose amendments in order to address concerns raised by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 130 S.Ct. 876 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that: a. the first President of the United States, George Washington, stat- ed: "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government."; b. it was the stated intention of the framers of the Constitution of the United States of America that the Congress of the United States of America should be "dependent on the people alone." (James Madison, Federalist 52); c. that dependency has evolved from a dependency on the people alone to a dependency on those who spend excessively in elections, through campaigns or third-party groups; d. the United States Supreme Court ruling in CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 558 U.S. 310 (2010) removed restrictions on amount of independent political spending; e. the removal of those restrictions has resulted in the unjust influ- ence of powerful economic forces, which have supplanted the will of the people by undermining our ability to choose our political leadership, write our own laws, and determine the fate of our state; and f. Article V of the United States Constitution requires the United States Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments upon EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05461-01-5