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Senate Bill S233

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the passage of bills by the legislature between the hours of midnight and eight o'clock a.m. unless two-thirds of the legislature is present and requires two-thirds approval for messages of necessity

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2025-S233 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9089
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 3 §14, Constn
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S1025
2017-2018: S2087
2019-2020: S557
2021-2022: S221, A9065
2023-2024: S48, A4723

2025-S233 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the passage of bills by the legislature between the hours of midnight and eight o'clock a.m. unless 2/3 of the legislature is present; requires two-thirds approval for messages of necessity.

2025-S233 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S233 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    233
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BORRELLO, RHOADS, WALCZYK -- read twice and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Judiciary
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to section 14 of article 3 of  the  constitution,
   in  relation  to prohibiting the passage of bills between the hours of
   midnight and eight o'clock a.m.  and requiring two-thirds approval for
   messages of necessity
 
   Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 14 of arti-
 cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   § 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law:
   A. unless it shall have  been  printed  and  upon  the  desks  of  the
 members,  in  its  final  form, at least three calendar legislative days
 prior to its final passage, unless the governor, or the acting governor,
 shall have certified, under [his or her] THE GOVERNOR'S OR ACTING GOVER-
 NOR'S hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in  [his  or  her]
 THE  GOVERNOR'S  OR  ACTING  GOVERNOR'S opinion necessitate an immediate
 vote thereon AND TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH BRANCH OF THE
 LEGISLATURE ASSENT TO SUCH FACTS THAT NECESSITATE SUCH  IMMEDIATE  VOTE,
 in  which  case it must nevertheless be upon the desks of the members in
 final form, not necessarily printed,  before  its  final  passage;  [nor
 shall any bill be passed or become a law,]
   B.  except  by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each
 branch of the legislature;
   C.  BETWEEN THE HOURS OF MIDNIGHT AND EIGHT  O'CLOCK  A.M.;  PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER  THAT THIS PROVISION MAY BE WAIVED UPON THE ASSENT OF TWO-THIRDS
 OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH BRANCH OF THE LEGISLATURE; and
   D. upon the last reading of a bill,  no  amendment  thereof  shall  be
 allowed,  and  the  question upon its final passage shall be taken imme-
 diately thereafter, and the ayes and nays entered on the journal.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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