New York A 4239: Enacts the "omnibus emergency services volunteer incentive act" to provide certain benefits to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers

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A04239 Summary:

BILL NOA04239 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03132

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SPONSORJensen

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COSPNSRBailey

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd Art 3 §§13, 14 & 16, Art 19 §1, Art 4 §7, ren Art 20 to be Art 21, add Art 20 §§1 - 11, Constn

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Provides for initiative and referendum in New York State for the People as electors to propose or reject laws and submit amendments to the state constitution.

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BILL NOA04239 

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01/31/2025referred to judiciary

02/10/2025to attorney-general for opinion

03/03/2025opinion referred to judiciary

01/07/2026referred to judiciary

01/08/2026to attorney-general for opinion

01/30/2026opinion referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4239

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 31, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Judiciary

 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

 proposing amendments to the constitution, in relation to providing the
 electors with the power of initiative and referendum

 1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 13 of article
 2 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
 3 § 13. The enacting clause of all bills shall be "The People of the
 4 State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
 5 follows," and no law shall be enacted except by bill; except as other-
 6 wise provided in article twenty of this constitution.
 7 § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the opening paragraph of
 8 section 14 of article 3 of the constitution be amended to read as
 9 follows:
 10 a. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been
 11 printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least
 12 three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the
 13 governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under [his or
 14 her] their hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in [his or
 15 her] their opinion [necessitate] necessitates an immediate vote thereon,
 16 in which case it must nevertheless be upon the desks of the members in
 17 final form, not necessarily printed, before its final passage; nor shall
 18 any bill be passed or become a law, except by the assent of a majority
 19 of the members elected to each branch of the legislature; and upon the
 20 last reading of a bill, no amendment thereof shall be allowed, and the
 21 question upon its final passage shall be taken immediately thereafter,
 22 and the ayes and nays entered on the journal.
 23 b. This section shall not apply to any initiative or referendum that
 24 is subject to the provisions of article twenty of this constitution.
 25 § 3. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 1 of article 19 of
 26 the constitution be amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD89067-01-5

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 1 Section 1. a. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be
 2 proposed in the senate and assembly whereupon such amendment or amend-
 3 ments shall be referred to the attorney-general whose duty it shall be
 4 within twenty days thereafter to render an opinion in writing to the
 5 senate and assembly as to the effect of such amendment or amendments
 6 upon other provisions of the constitution. Upon receiving such opinion,
 7 if the amendment or amendments as proposed or as amended shall be agreed
 8 to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such
 9 proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, and
 10 the ayes and noes taken thereon, and referred to the next regular legis-
 11 lative session convening after the succeeding general election of
 12 members of the assembly, and shall be published for three months previ-
 13 ous to the time of making such choice; and if in such legislative
 14 session, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a
 15 majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the
 16 duty