Requires approval by 2/3 vote of membership of the senate and assembly voting separately to increase or decrease any tax rate, impose a new state tax, extend or delete existing state tax.

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S1919A-2011 Actions

• Apr 11, 2012: TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION
• Apr 2, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 1919A
• Apr 2, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
• Feb 8, 2012: OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• Jan 9, 2012: TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO FINANCE
• Feb 2, 2011: OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• Jan 19, 2011: referred to ways and means
• Jan 19, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jan 19, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Jan 18, 2011: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.4
• Jan 18, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jan 14, 2011: TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION
• Jan 14, 2011: REFERRED TO FINANCE

S1919A-2011 Votes

S1919A-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1919A

TITLE OF BILL:
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
proposing an amendment to section 14 of article 3 of the
constitution, in relation to the
procedure for voting increases in the rate of state taxes

PURPOSE:
Requires two-thirds vote of legislature for any increase, extension,
imposition or restoration of any tax, fee, assessment, surcharge or
any other such levy change except to any bill which results from the
passage of a home rule message.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This legislation is a constitutional amendment which would require a
two-third's majority vote, rather than a simple majority vote in the
Senate and Assembly for any increase, extension, imposition or
restoration of any tax, fee, assessment, surcharge or any other such
levy change.

JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, only a majority vote is required for legislation to be
passed which raises new revenue. This legislation would require broad
and overwhelming support for any revenue increase to ensure that the
increased revenue was truly vital to the entire State. It will be one
more tool in restraining the runaway budget spending that we saw over
the past couple of years and it will help curtail the use of New
York's taxpayers as the State's ATM.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Will force the State to live within its current means.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Resolved (if the assembly concur), That the foregoing amendments be
referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in
conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.

S1919A-2011 Text

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

                                   1919--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              January 14, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sens.  ZELDIN,  BALL,  GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, LANZA, MARTINS,
    O'MARA, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
    ed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted  to  the
    Committee  on  Finance  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
    committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
    recommitted to said committee

              CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

  proposing  an  amendment to section 14 of article 3 of the constitution,
    in relation to the procedure for voting increases in the rate of state
    taxes

    Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 14 of arti-
  cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:

    S 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law  unless  it  shall  have
  been  printed  and  upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at
  least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless
  the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under his or
  her hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in his or her  opin-
  ion  necessitate an immediate vote thereon, in which case it must never-
  theless be upon the desks of the members in final form, not  necessarily
  printed,  before  its  final  passage;  nor  shall  any  bill, EXCEPT AS
  PROVIDED HEREIN, be passed or become a law, except by the  assent  of  a
  majority  of  the members elected to each branch of the legislature; NOR
  SHALL ANY BILL WHICH INCREASES, EXTENDS, IMPOSES, OR  REVIVES  ANY  TAX,
  FEE,  ASSESSMENT, SURCHARGE OR ANY OTHER SUCH LEVY OR COLLECTION, EXCEPT
  ANY BILL WHICH RESULTS FROM THE PASSAGE OF A HOME RULE MESSAGE  PURSUANT
  TO SECTION TWO OF ARTICLE NINE OF THIS CONSTITUTION, BE PASSED OR BECOME
  A LAW, EXCEPT BY THE ASSENT OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH
  BRANCH  OF  THE LEGISLATURE VOTING SEPARATELY; and upon the last reading
  of a bill, no amendment thereof shall be allowed, and the question  upon
  its  final  passage  shall be taken immediately thereafter, and the ayes
  and nays entered on the journal.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD89026-02-2

 S. 1919--A                          2

    S 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the  foregoing  amendment
  be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.