A 537: Relates to requiring bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship to be brought to the floor for a vote to be taken thereon.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 537 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALSH, McDONOUGH, RA, HAWLEY, DiPIETRO, BLANKEN- BUSH, MORINELLO, BRABENEC, BARCLAY, PALMESANO, TAGUE, SMULLEN, DURSO, JENSEN, GALLAHAN, SIMPSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to bills with a thresh- old level of co-sponsorship 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 33-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 33-a. Bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship. 1. Any bill 4 introduced in the assembly shall, upon being co-sponsored by seventy-six 5 or more members, be brought to the floor of the house for a vote to be 6 taken thereon during the legislative session in which it was introduced. 7 2. Any bill introduced in the senate shall, upon being co-sponsored by 8 thirty-two or more members, be brought to the floor of the house for a 9 vote to be taken thereon during the legislative session in which it was 10 introduced. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00843-01-5