Senate Bill S2071

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes a working group within the office of the state comptroller to study the process and ramifications of separating upstate and downstate New York into two separate states

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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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2021-S2071 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Comptroller
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S3814

2021-S2071 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a working group within the office of the state comptroller to study the process and ramifications of separating upstate and downstate New York into two separate states.

2021-S2071 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2071 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2071
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  JORDAN,  O'MARA,  ORTT  -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT establishing a working group within the office of the state comp-
   troller to study the process and ramifications of  separating  upstate
   and downstate New York into two separate states

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. There is hereby established within the office of the  state
 comptroller  a working group to be known as the "separate states working
 group". The working group shall conduct a study examining:
   (a) the economic ramifications over the short term and  long  term  of
 separating  upstate  and  downstate  New  York into two separate states,
 including, but not limited to, economic opportunity for both areas;
   (b) the legal ramifications of separating upstate  and  downstate  New
 York into two separate states;
   (c)  the  general up-front cost associated with separating upstate and
 downstate New York into two separate states, exclusive of the long  term
 economic ramifications, including, but not limited to the cost of creat-
 ing two new state governments, the separation of the physical and organ-
 izational infrastructure, the cost of settling land disputes;
   (d)  the  constitutional steps necessary to separate upstate and down-
 state New York into two separate states; and
   (e) any constitutional precedents in the United States for dividing  a
 state into two separate states.
   § 2. The working group shall consist of the following:
   (a) the state comptroller and his or her designee;
   (b) one member appointed by the comptroller;
   (c) the attorney general and his or her designee;
   (d) one member appointed by the attorney general;
   (e) two members appointed by the governor;
   (f) one member appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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