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                                   3923
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- 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 14 of article 3 of  the  constitution,
   in relation to limiting the use of messages of necessity

   Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 14 of arti-
 cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   §  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] THEIR hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in [his or
 her] THE GOVERNOR'S OR ACTING GOVERNOR'S opinion necessitate an  immedi-
 ate vote thereon TO RESPOND TO A STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY, AS DEFINED BY
 PARAGRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION TWENTY OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW in
 which  case  it  must  nevertheless  be upon the desks of the members in
 final form, not necessarily printed, before its final passage; nor shall
 any bill be passed or become a law, except by the assent of  a  majority
 of  the  members elected to each branch of the legislature; 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.
   For purposes of this section, a bill shall be deemed to be printed and
 upon the desks of the members if: it is set forth in a legible electron-
 ic format by electronic means, and it is available for  review  in  such
 format  at the desks of the members. For purposes of this section "elec-
 tronic means" means any method of transmission  of  information  between
 computers  or  other  machines  designed  for the purpose of sending and
 receiving  such  transmissions  and  which:  allows  the  recipient   to
 reproduce   the   information   transmitted  in  a  tangible  medium  of
 expression; and does not permit additions, deletions or other changes to
 be made without leaving an adequate record thereof.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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