Assembly Bill A5905A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to Senate apportionment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A5905 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 3 §§2 & 4, Constn
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A912
2019-2020: A1954

2015-A5905 - Summary

Relates to Senate apportionment; provides for sixty-two senators to be elected from each of sixty-two counties.

2015-A5905 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5905

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 6, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

            CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

proposing an amendment to sections 2 and 4 of article 3 of the constitu-
  tion, in relation to Senate apportionment

  Section  1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 2 of article
3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
  S 2. The senate shall consist of [fifty] SIXTY-TWO members, except  as
hereinafter  provided.  The  senators  elected  in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three  years,
and  their  successors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall
consist of one hundred and fifty members. The assembly  members  elected
in  the  year  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and thirty-eight, and their
successors, shall be chosen for two years.
  S 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That subdivisions (d) and (e) of
section 4 of article 3  of  the  constitution  be  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (d)  [The  ratio for apportioning senators shall always be obtained by
dividing the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, by fifty, and  the
senate  shall  always  be  composed of fifty members, except that if any
county having three or more senators at the time  of  any  apportionment
shall  be  entitled  on such ratio to an additional senator or senators,
such additional senator or senators shall be given  to  such  county  in
addition  to  the fifty senators, and the whole number of senators shall
be increased to that extent.
  The senate districts, including the present ones,  as  existing  imme-
diately before the enactment of a law readjusting or altering the senate
districts,  shall continue to be the senate districts of the state until
the expirations of the terms of the senators then in office, except  for
the  purpose of an election of senators for full terms beginning at such
expirations, and for the formation of assembly districts.]  ONE  SENATOR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD89076-01-5
              

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2015-A5905A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 3 §§2 & 4, Constn
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A912
2019-2020: A1954

2015-A5905A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to Senate apportionment; provides for sixty-two senators to be elected from each of sixty-two counties.

2015-A5905A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 5905--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 6, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

            CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

proposing an amendment to sections 2 and 4 of article 3 of the constitu-
  tion, in relation to Senate apportionment

  Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 2 of  article
3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
  S 2. The senate shall consist of [fifty] SIXTY-TWO members[, except as
hereinafter  provided].  The  senators  elected in the year one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three  years,
and  their  successors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall
consist of one hundred and fifty members. The assembly  members  elected
in  the  year  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and thirty-eight, and their
successors, shall be chosen for two years.
  S 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 4 of article  3  of
the constitution be amended to read as follows:
  S 4. (a) Except as herein otherwise provided, the federal census taken
in the year nineteen hundred thirty and each federal census taken decen-
nially  thereafter  shall be controlling as to the number of inhabitants
in the state or any part thereof for the purposes of  the  apportionment
of  members  of  assembly and readjustment or alteration of [senate and]
assembly districts next occurring, in so far  as  such  census  and  the
tabulation  thereof  purport to give the information necessary therefor.
The legislature, by law, shall provide for the making and tabulation  by
state  authorities  of  an  enumeration of the inhabitants of the entire
state to be used for such purposes, instead of a federal census, if  the
taking  of  a  federal  census  in any tenth year from the year nineteen
hundred thirty be omitted or if the federal census  fails  to  show  the
number  of  aliens  or  Indians  not  taxed. If a federal census, though
giving the requisite information as to the state at large, fails to give
the information as to  any  civil  or  territorial  divisions  which  is

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

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