New York S 4800: Provides for statewide video arraignments; repealer

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S04800 Summary:

BILL NOS04800 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06973

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SPONSORTEDISCO

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COSPNSRSTEC, BORRELLO, HELMING, MURRAY, ORTT, PALUMBO, RHOADS, WALCZYK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd Art 13 §3, Constn

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Incorporates legislative provisions regarding the conduct of special elections to fill vacancies in federal elected offices into the constitution.

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BILL NOS04800 

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02/13/2025REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

02/13/2025TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION

03/12/2025OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

01/07/2026REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

01/08/2026TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION

02/03/2026OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4800

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 13, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, STEC, BORRELLO, HELMING, MURRAY, ORTT,
 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 3 of article 13 of the constitution,
 in relation to special elections of federal officers

 1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 3 of arti-
 2 cle 13 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
 3 § 3. (a) The legislature shall provide for filling vacancies in
 4 office, and in case of elective officers, no person appointed to fill a
 5 vacancy shall hold his or her office by virtue of such appointment long-
 6 er than the commencement of the political year next succeeding the first
 7 annual election after the happening of the vacancy; provided, however,
 8 that nothing contained in this article shall prohibit the filling of
 9 vacancies on boards of education, including boards of education of
 10 community districts in the city school district of the city of New York,
 11 by appointment until the next regular school district election, whether
 12 or not such appointment shall extend beyond the thirty-first day of
 13 December in any year.
 14 (b) In the case of a special election to fill a vacancy of a federal
 15 officer:
 16 (i) a vacancy occurring three months before the general election in
 17 any year in any office authorized to be filled at a general election,
 18 shall be filled at the general election held next thereafter, unless
 19 otherwise provided by the constitution, or unless previously filled at a
 20 special election.
 21 (ii) A vacancy occurring by the expiration of term at the end of an
 22 even numbered year in an office which may not under the provisions of
 23 the constitution be filled for a full term at the general election held
 24 prior to the expiration of such term, shall be filled at said general
 25 election for a term ending with the commencement of the political year

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD89093-01-5

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 1 next succeeding the first general election at which said office can be
 2 filled by election for a full term.
 3 (iii) Upon the failure to elect to any office, at a general or special
 4 election, at which such office is authorized to be filled, or upon the
 5 death or disqualification of a person elected to office before the
 6 commencement of their official term, or upon the occurrence of a vacancy
 7 in any elective office which cannot be filled by appointment for a peri-
 8 od extending to or beyond the next general election at which a person
 9 may be elected thereto, the governor shall make proclamation of a
 10 special election to fill such office within ten days of the occurrence
 11 of a vacancy, specifying the district or county in which the election is
 12 to be held, and the day thereof, which shall be not less than seventy
 13 nor more than eighty days from the date of the proclamation to fill a
 14 vacancy in the office of a representative in congress.
 15 (iv) A special election shall not be held to fill a vacancy in the
 16 office of a representative in congress unless such vacancy occurs on or
 17 before the first day of July of the last year of t