Senate Bill S9935

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the city charter referendum process; repeals certain provisions regarding adoption of new or revised city charter proposed by charter commission which limit submission of questions to city's electors

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules 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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2023-S9935 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5661
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Municipal Home Rule Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §36 sub 5 ¶¶(e), (f) & (g), amd §36, Munic Home R L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6019
2011-2012: A2065
2013-2014: A5347
2015-2016: A3839
2017-2018: A3124
2019-2020: A1453
2021-2022: A23

2023-S9935 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the city charter referendum process; repeals certain provisions regarding the adoption of a new or revised city charter proposed by a charter commission which limit the submission of questions to a city's qualified electors; eliminates the rule that provides that whenever a city charter commission puts a proposal on the local ballot, all other local referendum proposals are barred from the ballot.

2023-S9935 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9935 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9935
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 18, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the municipal home rule law, in  relation  to  the  city
   charter  referendum process; and to repeal paragraphs (e), (f) and (g)
   of subdivision 5 of section 36 of the municipal home rule law,  relat-
   ing  to  limitations  on the submitting of a question to the qualified
   electors of a city when there is a question  submitted  by  a  charter
   commission
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section  36
 of the municipal home rule law are REPEALED.
   §  2.  Paragraphs  (b)  and  (d) of subdivision 5 of section 36 of the
 municipal home rule law, as amended by chapter 592 of the laws of  1964,
 are amended and a new paragraph (e) is added  to read as follows:
   (b) Such new charter or amendments shall be completed and filed in the
 office  of the city clerk (I) NO LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS AFTER
 THE CHARTER COMMISSION WAS CREATED AND ORGANIZED, AND NO LESS THAN THIR-
 TY DAYS AFTER A CHARTER COMMISSION REPORT HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIC  PURSUANT
 TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AND (II) in time for submission to
 the  electors not later than the second general election after the char-
 ter commission is created and organized. The local  law  or  certificate
 establishing  the commission or, in the absence of such provision there-
 in, the charter commission shall provide for such publication  or  other
 publicity in respect to the provisions of the proposed charter or amend-
 ments  as it may deem proper, and for submission thereof to the electors
 of the city at a general or special election held not earlier than sixty
 days after the filing thereof in the office of the city  clerk  and  not
 later  than  the  next  general election which does not occur within the
 said sixty days, provided, however, that if such general election occurs
 within ninety days after the said filing, the proposed charter or amend-
 ments shall be submitted at such general election. At such election,  if
 a proposed new charter is submitted as a single proposal, there shall be
 submitted to the qualified electors of the city the question: "Shall the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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