Senate Bill S9150

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9150
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 6, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to  voting  by  the
   senate on nominations of the governor
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 7 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter
 230 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read as follows:
   § 7. Appointment by the governor and senate.  1. An appointment to  an
 office by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate,
 shall  be made by communicating to the senate, while in session, a writ-
 ten nomination of a person for the office, designating the residence  of
 the  nominee,  and if nominated to be an officer of a political subdivi-
 sion of the state, designating also such subdivision, and if  nominating
 two  or more persons to the same office for different terms, designating
 the term for which each is nominated. If such nomination be of a succes-
 sor to a predecessor in the same office, it may be made and  acted  upon
 by the senate after the expiration of the term or occurrence of a vacan-
 cy in the office of such predecessor, or at any time during the legisla-
 tive  session  of  the calendar year in which the term of office of such
 predecessor shall expire or in which the office shall become vacant.  If
 the appointment be made before the expiration of the term of such prede-
 cessor,  the  term  of  office  of the appointee shall commence upon the
 expiration of the term of such predecessor, or if made to fill a  vacan-
 cy,  upon  the  occurrence  of such vacancy, or immediately if a vacancy
 already [exist] EXISTS. If the senate shall reject such nomination,  the
 secretary  of the senate shall forthwith communicate, by writing, signed
 by [him] THE SECRETARY and by the president of the senate, to the gover-
 nor the fact of such rejection. If the senate shall confirm  such  nomi-
 nation the appointment shall be deemed complete, and thereupon duplicate
 certificates  of the confirmation shall be made and signed by the presi-
 dent and secretary of the senate, who shall cause one to be delivered to
 the governor and the other to the secretary of state, who  shall  record
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 the  same  in  [his]  THE  SECRETARY'S  office  in  a book kept for that
 purpose.
   2. EACH APPOINTMENT SUBJECT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE VOTED ON INDIVID-
 UALLY;  NOMINATIONS  MAY  NOT  BE CONSIDERED, CONFIRMED OR REJECTED AS A
 SLATE OR GROUP. ALL VOTES SHALL BE CONDUCTED WITH A ROLL CALL VOTE  WITH
 EACH SENATOR'S VOTE NOTED ON THE RECORD.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to nominations made on and after  such
 effective  date.   Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.