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Senate Bill S1583

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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2025-S1583 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§5-c & 5-d, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3139
2011-2012: S4877
2013-2014: S3556
2015-2016: S2722
2017-2018: S1229
2019-2020: S2010
2021-2022: S3874
2023-2024: S1596

2025-S1583 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S1583 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1583 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1583
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO,  GALLIVAN,  HELMING, O'MARA, ORTT -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Investigations and Government 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, majority leader of the senate,
   majority leader of the assembly, minority leader of the senate, minor-
   ity leader of the assembly or chair 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-c and 5-d to read as follows:
   § 5-C. 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, MAJORITY
 LEADER OF THE SENATE, MAJORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY,  MINORITY  LEADER
 OF  THE  SENATE  OR  MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT
 YEARS.
   § 5-D. LIMITATION ON TENURE OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE CHAIR. NO  MEMBER
 OF  THE LEGISLATURE SHALL BE THE CHAIR OF ANY SINGLE LEGISLATIVE COMMIT-
 TEE FOR MORE THAN EIGHT CONSECUTIVE YEARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01612-01-5

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