[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD89085-01-3
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purposes, in place of a federal census, when the return of a decennial
federal census is delayed so that it is not available at the beginning
of the regular session of the legislature in the second year after the
year nineteen hundred thirty or after any tenth year therefrom, or if an
apportionment of members of assembly and readjustment or alteration of
senate districts is not made at or before such a session. At the regular
session in the year nineteen hundred thirty-two, and at the first regu-
lar session after the year nineteen hundred forty and after each tenth
year therefrom the senate districts shall be readjusted or altered, but
if, in any decade, counting from and including that which begins with
the year nineteen hundred thirty-one, such a readjustment or alteration
is not made at the time above prescribed, it shall be made at a subse-
quent session occurring not later than the sixth year of such decade,
meaning not later than nineteen hundred thirty-six, nineteen hundred
forty-six, nineteen hundred fifty-six, and so on; provided, however,
that if such districts shall have been readjusted or altered by law in
either of the years nineteen hundred thirty or nineteen hundred thirty-
one, they shall remain unaltered until the first regular session after
the year nineteen hundred forty. [Such districts shall be so readjusted
or altered that each senate district shall contain as nearly as may be
an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and be in as compact
form as practicable, and shall remain unaltered until the first year of
the next decade as above defined, and shall at all times consist of
contiguous territory, and no county shall be divided in the formation of
a senate district except to make two or more senate districts wholly in
such county.] No town, except a town having more than a full ratio of
apportionment, and no block in a city inclosed by streets or public
ways, shall be divided in the formation of senate districts[; nor shall
any]. IN THE REAPPORTIONMENT OF SENATE DISTRICTS, NO district SHALL
contain a greater excess in population over an adjoining district in the
same county, than the population of a town or block therein adjoining
such district. Counties, towns or blocks which, from their location, may
be included in either of two districts, shall be so placed as to make
said districts most nearly equal in number of inhabitants, excluding
aliens.
No county shall have four or more senators unless it shall have a full
ratio for each senator. No county shall have more than one-third of all
the senators; and no two counties or the territory thereof as now organ-
ized, which are adjoining counties, or which are separated only by
public waters, shall have more than one-half of all the senators.
(B) THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
SECTION FIVE-B OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL PREPARE A REDISTRICTING PLAN TO
ESTABLISH SENATE, ASSEMBLY, AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS EVERY TEN YEARS
COMMENCING IN TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, AND SHALL SUBMIT TO THE LEGISLA-
TURE SUCH PLAN AND THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION THEREFOR ON OR BEFORE
JANUARY FIRST OR AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE THEREAFTER BUT NO LATER THAN
JANUARY FIFTEENTH IN THE YEAR ENDING IN TWO BEGINNING IN TWO THOUSAND
TWENTY-TWO. THE REDISTRICTING PLANS FOR THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE
SHALL BE CONTAINED IN AND VOTED UPON BY THE LEGISLATURE IN A SINGLE
BILL, AND THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT PLAN MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE SAME
BILL IF THE LEGISLATURE CHOOSES TO DO SO. THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION
SHALL BE VOTED UPON, WITHOUT AMENDMENT, BY THE SENATE OR THE ASSEMBLY
AND IF APPROVED BY THE FIRST HOUSE VOTING UPON IT, SUCH LEGISLATION
SHALL BE DELIVERED TO THE OTHER HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO BE VOTED UPON WITH-
OUT AMENDMENT. IF APPROVED BY BOTH HOUSES, SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL BE
PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR FOR ACTION.
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IF EITHER HOUSE SHALL FAIL TO APPROVE THE LEGISLATION IMPLEMENTING THE
FIRST REDISTRICTING PLAN, OR THE GOVERNOR SHALL VETO SUCH LEGISLATION
AND THE LEGISLATURE SHALL FAIL TO OVERRIDE SUCH VETO, EACH HOUSE OR THE
GOVERNOR IF HE OR SHE VETOES IT, SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMISSION THAT SUCH
LEGISLATION HAS BEEN DISAPPROVED. WITHIN FIFTEEN DAYS OF SUCH NOTIFICA-
TION AND IN NO CASE LATER THAN FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH, THE REDISTRICTING
COMMISSION SHALL PREPARE AND SUBMIT TO THE LEGISLATURE A SECOND REDIS-
TRICTING PLAN AND THE NECESSARY IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION FOR SUCH PLAN.
SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL BE VOTED UPON, WITHOUT AMENDMENT, BY THE SENATE
OR THE ASSEMBLY AND, IF APPROVED BY THE FIRST HOUSE VOTING UPON IT, SUCH
LEGISLATION SHALL BE DELIVERED TO THE OTHER HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO BE
VOTED UPON WITHOUT AMENDMENT. IF APPROVED BY BOTH HOUSES, SUCH LEGIS-
LATION SHALL BE PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR FOR ACTION.
IF EITHER HOUSE SHALL FAIL TO APPROVE THE LEGISLATION IMPLEMENTING THE
SECOND REDISTRICTING PLAN, OR THE GOVERNOR SHALL VETO SUCH LEGISLATION
AND THE LEGISLATURE SHALL FAIL TO OVERRIDE SUCH VETO, EACH HOUSE SHALL
INTRODUCE SUCH IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION WITH ANY AMENDMENTS EACH HOUSE
OF THE LEGISLATURE DEEMS NECESSARY. ALL SUCH AMENDMENTS SHALL COMPLY
WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE. IF APPROVED BY BOTH HOUSES, SUCH
LEGISLATION SHALL BE PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR FOR ACTION.
ALL VOTES BY THE SENATE OR ASSEMBLY ON ANY REDISTRICTING PLAN LEGIS-
LATION PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE FOLLOWING RULES:
(1) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF TWO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES,
APPROVAL OF LEGISLATION SUBMITTED BY THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING
COMMISSION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (F) OF SECTION FIVE-B OF THIS ARTICLE
SHALL REQUIRE THE VOTE IN SUPPORT OF ITS PASSAGE BY AT LEAST A MAJORITY
OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE.
(2) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF TWO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES,
APPROVAL OF LEGISLATION SUBMITTED BY THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING
COMMISSION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (G) OF SECTION FIVE-B OF THIS ARTICLE
SHALL REQUIRE THE VOTE IN SUPPORT OF ITS PASSAGE BY AT LEAST SIXTY
PERCENT OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE.
(3) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY,
APPROVAL OF LEGISLATION SUBMITTED BY THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING
COMMISSION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (F) OR (G) OF SECTION FIVE-B OF THIS
ARTICLE SHALL REQUIRE THE VOTE IN SUPPORT OF ITS PASSAGE BY AT LEAST
TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE.
(C) SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION AND STAT-
UTES AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS, THE
FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES SHALL BE USED IN THE CREATION OF STATE SENATE AND
STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS:
(1) WHEN DRAWING DISTRICT LINES, THE COMMISSION SHALL CONSIDER WHETHER
SUCH LINES WOULD RESULT IN THE DENIAL OR ABRIDGEMENT OF RACIAL OR
LANGUAGE MINORITY VOTING RIGHTS, AND DISTRICTS SHALL NOT BE DRAWN TO
HAVE THE PURPOSE OF, NOR SHALL THEY RESULT IN, THE DENIAL OR ABRIDGEMENT
OF SUCH RIGHTS. DISTRICTS SHALL BE DRAWN SO THAT, BASED ON THE TOTALITY
OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES, RACIAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGE GROUPS DO NOT HAVE
LESS OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS THAN OTHER
MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORATE AND TO ELECT REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR CHOICE.
(2) TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, DISTRICTS SHALL CONTAIN AS NEARLY AS
MAY BE AN EQUAL NUMBER OF INHABITANTS. FOR EACH DISTRICT THAT DEVIATES
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FROM THIS REQUIREMENT, THE COMMISSION SHALL PROVIDE A SPECIFIC PUBLIC
EXPLANATION AS TO WHY SUCH DEVIATION EXISTS.
(3) EACH DISTRICT SHALL CONSIST OF CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY.
(4) EACH DISTRICT SHALL BE AS COMPACT IN FORM AS PRACTICABLE.
(5) DISTRICTS SHALL NOT BE DRAWN TO DISCOURAGE COMPETITION OR FOR THE
PURPOSE OF FAVORING OR DISFAVORING INCUMBENTS OR OTHER PARTICULAR CANDI-
DATES OR POLITICAL PARTIES. THE COMMISSION SHALL CONSIDER THE MAINTE-
NANCE OF CORES OF EXISTING DISTRICTS, OF PRE-EXISTING POLITICAL SUBDIVI-
SIONS, INCLUDING COUNTIES, CITIES, AND TOWNS, AND OF COMMUNITIES OF
INTEREST.
(6) IN DRAWING SENATE DISTRICTS, TOWNS OR BLOCKS WHICH, FROM THEIR
LOCATION MAY BE INCLUDED IN EITHER OF TWO DISTRICTS, SHALL BE SO PLACED
AS TO MAKE SAID DISTRICTS MOST NEARLY EQUAL IN NUMBER OF INHABITANTS.
THE REQUIREMENTS THAT SENATE DISTRICTS NOT DIVIDE COUNTIES OR TOWNS, AS
WELL AS THE 'BLOCK-ON-BORDER' AND 'TOWN-ON-BORDER' RULES, SHALL REMAIN
IN EFFECT.
DURING THE PREPARATION OF THE REDISTRICTING PLAN, THE INDEPENDENT
REDISTRICTING COMMISSION SHALL CONDUCT NOT LESS THAN ONE PUBLIC HEARING
ON PROPOSALS FOR THE REDISTRICTING OF CONGRESSIONAL AND STATE LEGISLA-
TIVE DISTRICTS IN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING (I) CITIES: ALBANY, BUFFALO,
SYRACUSE, ROCHESTER, AND WHITE PLAINS; AND (II) COUNTIES: BRONX, KINGS,
NEW YORK, QUEENS, RICHMOND, NASSAU, AND SUFFOLK. NOTICE OF ALL SUCH
HEARINGS SHALL BE WIDELY PUBLISHED USING THE BEST AVAILABLE MEANS AND
MEDIA A REASONABLE TIME BEFORE EVERY HEARING. AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS PRIOR
TO THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING AND IN ANY EVENT NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER
FIFTEENTH OF THE YEAR ENDING IN ONE OR AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE THEREAFT-
ER, THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION SHALL MAKE WIDELY AVAILABLE
TO THE PUBLIC, IN PRINT FORM AND USING THE BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY,
ITS DRAFT REDISTRICTING PLANS, RELEVANT DATA, AND RELATED INFORMATION.
SUCH PLANS, DATA, AND INFORMATION SHALL BE IN A FORM THAT ALLOWS AND
FACILITATES THEIR USE BY THE PUBLIC TO REVIEW, ANALYZE, AND COMMENT UPON
SUCH PLANS AND TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE REDISTRICTING PLANS FOR PRESENTA-
TION TO THE COMMISSION AT THE PUBLIC HEARINGS. THE INDEPENDENT REDIS-
TRICTING COMMISSION SHALL REPORT THE FINDINGS OF ALL SUCH HEARINGS TO
THE LEGISLATURE UPON SUBMISSION OF A REDISTRICTING PLAN.
(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.
(E) THE PROCESS FOR REDISTRICTING CONGRESSIONAL AND STATE LEGISLATIVE
DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED BY THIS SECTION AND SECTIONS FIVE AND FIVE-B OF
THIS ARTICLE SHALL GOVERN REDISTRICTING IN THIS STATE EXCEPT TO THE
EXTENT THAT A COURT IS REQUIRED TO ORDER THE ADOPTION OF, OR CHANGES TO,
A REDISTRICTING PLAN AS A REMEDY FOR A VIOLATION OF LAW.
A REAPPORTIONMENT PLAN AND THE DISTRICTS CONTAINED IN SUCH PLAN SHALL
BE IN FORCE UNTIL THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF A PLAN BASED UPON THE SUBSEQUENT
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FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS TAKEN IN A YEAR ENDING IN ZERO UNLESS MODIFIED
PURSUANT TO COURT ORDER.
S 5. The members of the assembly shall be chosen by single districts
and shall be apportioned [by the legislature] PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION
AND SECTIONS FOUR AND FIVE-B OF THIS ARTICLE at each regular session at
which the senate districts are readjusted or altered, and by the same
law, among the several counties of the state, as nearly as may be
according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding
aliens. Every county heretofore established and separately organized,
except the county of Hamilton, shall always be entitled to one member of
assembly, and no county shall hereafter be erected unless its population
shall entitle it to a member. The county of Hamilton shall elect with
the county of Fulton, until the population of the county of Hamilton
shall, according to the ratio, entitle it to a member. But the legisla-
ture may abolish the said county of Hamilton and annex the territory
thereof to some other county or counties.
The quotient obtained by dividing the whole number of inhabitants of
the state, excluding aliens, by the number of members of assembly, shall
be the ratio for apportionment, which shall be made as follows: One
member of assembly shall be apportioned to every county, including
Fulton and Hamilton as one county, containing less than the ratio and
one-half over. Two members shall be apportioned to every other county.
The remaining members of assembly shall be apportioned to the counties
having more than two ratios according to the number of inhabitants,
excluding aliens. Members apportioned on remainders shall be apportioned
to the counties having the highest remainders in the order thereof
respectively. No county shall have more members of assembly than a coun-
ty having a greater number of inhabitants, excluding aliens.
The assembly districts, including the present ones, as existing imme-
diately before the enactment of a law making an apportionment of members
of assembly among the counties, shall continue to be the assembly
districts of the state until the expiration of the terms of members then
in office, except for the purpose of an election of members of assembly
for full terms beginning at such expirations.
In any county entitled to more than one member, the board of supervi-
sors, and in any city embracing an entire county and having no board of
supervisors, the common council, or if there be none, the body exercis-
ing the powers of a common council, shall assemble at such times as the
legislature making an apportionment shall prescribe, and divide such
counties into assembly districts as nearly equal in number of inhabit-
ants, excluding aliens, as may be, of convenient and contiguous territo-
ry in as compact form as practicable, each of which shall be wholly
within a senate district formed under the same apportionment, equal to
the number of members of assembly to which such county shall be enti-
tled, and shall cause to be filed in the office of the secretary of
state and of the clerk of such county, a description of such districts,
specifying the number of each district and of the inhabitants thereof,
excluding aliens, according to the census or enumeration used as the
population basis for the formation of such districts; and such appor-
tionment and districts shall remain unaltered until after the next reap-
portionment of members of assembly, except that the board of supervisors
of any county containing a town having more than a ratio of apportion-
ment and one-half over may alter the assembly districts in a senate
district containing such town at any time on or before March first,
nineteen hundred forty-six. In counties having more than one senate
district, the same number of assembly districts shall be put in each
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senate district, unless the assembly districts cannot be evenly divided
among the senate districts of any county, in which case one more assem-
bly district shall be put in the senate district in such county having
the largest, or one less assembly district shall be put in the senate
district in such county having the smallest number of inhabitants,
excluding aliens, as the case may require. [No town, except a town
having more than a ratio of apportionment and one-half over, and no
block in a city inclosed by streets or public ways, shall be divided in
the formation of assembly districts, nor shall any districts contain a
greater excess in population over an adjoining district in the same
senate district, than the population of a town or block therein adjoin-
ing such assembly district. Towns or blocks which, from their location
may be included in either of two districts, shall be so placed as to
make said districts most nearly equal in number of inhabitants, exclud-
ing aliens.] Nothing in this section shall prevent the division, at any
time, of counties and towns and the erection of new towns by the legis-
lature.
An apportionment by the legislature, or other body, shall be subject
to review by the supreme court, at the suit of any citizen, under such
reasonable regulations as the legislature may prescribe; and any court
before which a cause may be pending involving an apportionment, shall
give precedence thereto over all other causes and proceedings, and if
said court be not in session it shall convene promptly for the disposi-
tion of the same. THE COURT SHALL RENDER ITS DECISION WITHIN SIXTY DAYS
AFTER A PETITION IS FILED. IN ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING RELATING TO REDIS-
TRICTING OF CONGRESSIONAL OR STATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS, ANY LAW ESTAB-
LISHING CONGRESSIONAL OR STATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS FOUND TO VIOLATE
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE INVALID IN WHOLE OR IN PART. IN
THE EVENT THAT A COURT FINDS SUCH A VIOLATION, THE LEGISLATURE SHALL
HAVE A FULL AND REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO CORRECT THE LAW'S LEGAL
INFIRMITIES.
S 5-B. (A) ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY FIRST OF EACH YEAR ENDING WITH A ZERO
AND AT ANY OTHER TIME A COURT ORDERS THAT CONGRESSIONAL OR STATE LEGIS-
LATIVE DISTRICTS BE AMENDED, AN INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
SHALL BE ESTABLISHED TO DETERMINE THE DISTRICT LINES FOR CONGRESSIONAL
AND STATE LEGISLATIVE OFFICES. THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
SHALL BE COMPOSED OF TEN MEMBERS, APPOINTED AS FOLLOWS:
(1) TWO MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE
SENATE;
(2) TWO MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY;
(3) TWO MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE
SENATE;
(4) TWO MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE
ASSEMBLY;
(5) TWO MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE EIGHT MEMBERS APPOINTED
PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPHS (1) THROUGH (4) OF THIS SUBDIVISION BY A VOTE OF
NOT LESS THAN FIVE MEMBERS IN FAVOR OF SUCH APPOINTMENT, AND THESE TWO
MEMBERS SHALL NOT HAVE BEEN ENROLLED IN THE PRECEDING FIVE YEARS IN
EITHER OF THE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES THAT CONTAIN THE LARGEST OR SECOND
LARGEST NUMBER OF ENROLLED VOTERS WITHIN THE STATE;
(6) ONE MEMBER SHALL BE DESIGNATED CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION BY A MAJOR-
ITY OF THE MEMBERS APPOINTED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPHS (1) THROUGH (5) OF
THIS SUBDIVISION TO CONVENE AND PRESIDE OVER EACH MEETING OF THE COMMIS-
SION.
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(B) THE MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION SHALL BE
REGISTERED VOTERS IN THIS STATE. NO MEMBER SHALL WITHIN THE LAST THREE
YEARS:
(1) BE OR HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE OR
UNITED STATES CONGRESS OR A STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIAL;
(2) BE OR HAVE BEEN A STATE OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OR LEGISLATIVE EMPLOY-
EE AS DEFINED IN SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW;
(3) BE OR HAVE BEEN A REGISTERED LOBBYIST IN NEW YORK STATE;
(4) BE OR HAVE BEEN A POLITICAL PARTY CHAIRMAN, AS DEFINED IN PARA-
GRAPH (K) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF THE PUBLIC
OFFICERS LAW;
(5) BE THE SPOUSE OF A STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICIAL OR OF ANY MEMBER OF
THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, OR OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
(C) TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, THE MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT REDIS-
TRICTING COMMISSION SHALL REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THIS
STATE WITH REGARD TO RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, LANGUAGE, AND GEOGRAPHIC
RESIDENCE AND TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE THE APPOINTING AUTHORITIES SHALL
CONSULT WITH ORGANIZATIONS DEVOTED TO PROTECTING THE VOTING RIGHTS OF
MINORITY AND OTHER VOTERS CONCERNING POTENTIAL APPOINTEES TO THE COMMIS-
SION.
(D) VACANCIES IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION SHALL BE FILLED
WITHIN THIRTY DAYS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR IN THE ORIGINAL APPOINT-
MENTS.
(E) THE LEGISLATURE SHALL PROVIDE BY LAW FOR THE COMPENSATION OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, INCLUDING COMPEN-
SATION FOR ACTUAL AND NECESSARY EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF
THEIR DUTIES.
(F) A MINIMUM OF FIVE MEMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMIS-
SION SHALL CONSTITUTE A QUORUM FOR THE TRANSACTION OF ANY BUSINESS OR
THE EXERCISE OF ANY POWER OF SUCH COMMISSION PRIOR TO THE APPOINTMENT OF
THE TWO COMMISSION MEMBERS APPOINTED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (5) OF SUBDI-
VISION (A) OF THIS SECTION, AND A MINIMUM OF SEVEN MEMBERS SHALL CONSTI-
TUTE A QUORUM AFTER SUCH MEMBERS HAVE BEEN APPOINTED, AND NO EXERCISE OF
ANY POWER OF THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION SHALL OCCUR WITH-
OUT THE AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF AT LEAST A MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS, PROVIDED
THAT, IN ORDER TO APPROVE ANY REDISTRICTING PLAN AND IMPLEMENTING LEGIS-
LATION, THE FOLLOWING RULES SHALL APPLY:
(1) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY,
APPROVAL OF A REDISTRICTING PLAN AND IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION BY THE
COMMISSION FOR SUBMISSION TO THE LEGISLATURE SHALL REQUIRE THE VOTE IN
SUPPORT OF ITS APPROVAL BY AT LEAST SEVEN MEMBERS INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE
MEMBER APPOINTED BY EACH OF THE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS.
(2) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF TWO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES,
APPROVAL OF A REDISTRICTING PLAN BY THE COMMISSION FOR SUBMISSION TO THE
LEGISLATURE SHALL REQUIRE THE VOTE IN SUPPORT OF ITS APPROVAL BY AT
LEAST SEVEN MEMBERS INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE
SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND ONE MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE TEMPORARY PRESI-
DENT OF THE SENATE.
(G) IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMMISSION IS UNABLE TO OBTAIN SEVEN VOTES
TO APPROVE A REDISTRICTING PLAN ON OR BEFORE JANUARY FIRST IN THE YEAR
ENDING IN TWO OR AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE THEREAFTER, THE COMMISSION SHALL
SUBMIT TO THE LEGISLATURE THAT REDISTRICTING PLAN AND IMPLEMENTING
LEGISLATION THAT GARNERED THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES IN SUPPORT OF ITS
APPROVAL BY THE COMMISSION WITH A RECORD OF THE VOTES TAKEN. IN THE
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EVENT THAT MORE THAN ONE PLAN RECEIVED THE SAME NUMBER OF VOTES FOR
APPROVAL, AND SUCH NUMBER WAS HIGHER THAN THAT FOR ANY OTHER PLAN, THEN
THE COMMISSION SHALL SUBMIT ALL PLANS THAT OBTAINED SUCH NUMBER OF
VOTES. THE LEGISLATURE SHALL CONSIDER AND VOTE UPON SUCH IMPLEMENTING
LEGISLATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VOTING RULES SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION
(B) OF SECTION FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE.
(H) (1) THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION SHALL APPOINT TWO
CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE COMMISSION IN ACCORD-
ANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE:
(I) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF TWO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES,
THE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS SHALL BE APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF THE
COMMISSION THAT INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE APPOINTEE BY THE SPEAKER OF THE
ASSEMBLY AND AT LEAST ONE APPOINTEE BY THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE
SENATE.
(II) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY, THE
CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS SHALL BE APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF THE COMMISSION
THAT INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE APPOINTEE BY EACH OF THE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS.
(2) ONE OF THE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS SHALL BE ENROLLED IN THE POLI-
TICAL PARTY WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ENROLLED MEMBERS IN THE STATE AND
ONE SHALL BE ENROLLED IN THE POLITICAL PARTY WITH THE SECOND HIGHEST
NUMBER OF ENROLLED MEMBERS IN THE STATE. THE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
SHALL APPOINT SUCH STAFF AS ARE NECESSARY TO PERFORM THE COMMISSION'S
DUTIES, EXCEPT THAT THE COMMISSION SHALL REVIEW A STAFFING PLAN PREPARED
AND PROVIDED BY THE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WHICH SHALL CONTAIN A LIST OF
THE VARIOUS POSITIONS AND THE DUTIES, QUALIFICATIONS, AND SALARIES ASSO-
CIATED WITH EACH POSITION.
(3) IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMMISSION IS UNABLE TO APPOINT ONE OR BOTH
OF THE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WITHIN FORTY-FIVE DAYS OF THE ESTABLISH-
MENT OF A QUORUM OF SEVEN COMMISSIONERS, THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE SHALL
BE FOLLOWED:
(I) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF TWO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES,
WITHIN TEN DAYS THE SPEAKER'S APPOINTEES ON THE COMMISSION SHALL APPOINT
ONE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT'S APPOINTEES ON
THE COMMISSION SHALL APPOINT THE OTHER CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. ALSO WITH-
IN TEN DAYS THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY SHALL SELECT A CO-DEPUTY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE SHALL SELECT
THE OTHER CO-DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
(II) IN THE EVENT THAT THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ARE MEMBERS OF THE SAME POLITICAL PARTY, WITHIN
TEN DAYS THE SPEAKER'S AND TEMPORARY PRESIDENT'S APPOINTEES ON THE
COMMISSION SHALL TOGETHER APPOINT ONE CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND THE TWO
MINORITY LEADERS' APPOINTEES ON THE COMMISSION SHALL TOGETHER APPOINT
THE OTHER CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
(4) IN THE EVENT OF A VACANCY IN THE OFFICES OF CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OR CO-DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE POSITION SHALL BE FILLED WITHIN TEN
DAYS OF ITS OCCURRENCE BY THE SAME APPOINTING AUTHORITY OR AUTHORITIES
THAT APPOINTED HIS OR HER PREDECESSOR.
(I) THE STATE BUDGET SHALL INCLUDE NECESSARY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
EXPENSES OF THE INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, PROVIDE FOR
COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES FOR THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF
THE COMMISSION, ASSIGN TO THE COMMISSION ANY ADDITIONAL DUTIES THAT THE
LEGISLATURE MAY DEEM NECESSARY TO THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES STIPU-
LATED IN THIS ARTICLE, AND REQUIRE OTHER AGENCIES AND OFFICIALS OF THE
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STATE OF NEW YORK AND ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS TO PROVIDE SUCH INFOR-
MATION AND ASSISTANCE AS THE COMMISSION MAY REQUIRE TO PERFORM ITS
DUTIES.
S 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
submitted to the people for approval at the general election to be held
in the year 2014 in accordance with the provisions of the election law.