New York S 2048: Prohibits legislative bills from embracing more than 1 subject

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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2048
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, FUNKE -- 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 requiring bills to
embrace a single subject
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 49
2 to read as follows:
3 § 49. Bills to embrace one subject. No bill, with the exception of the
4 budget bills submitted by the governor pursuant to article seven of the
5 constitution and amendments thereto, shall be introduced or passed by
6 the legislature which embraces more than one subject, and that shall be
7 expressed in the title.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect March 31, 2019.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06951-01-9