Title CMS, Senate Rules

RULE IV PRESIDING OFFICER

Section 1. The Presiding Officer of the Senate shall preserve order and decorum in the Senate Chamber; ensure that debate is germane to the question under discussion; in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the lobby or galleries, he or she may cause the same to be cleare…

§ 2. Immediately upon the final passage by the Senate of any bill, or concurrent resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State, and concurrent resolutions proposing or ratifying amendments to the Constitution of the United States he or she shall certify that th…

§ 3. When the Presiding Officer is other than the President of the Senate, such Presiding Officer shall be vested with all of the powers and duties conferred by these rules and by any other rule or law upon the President.

RULE V THE SENATE AND ITS OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 1. The Senate shall not discriminate because of race, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability in judging the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, or in the appointment of any member to committee or other office, or in…

§ 2. The administration and operations of the Senate shall be conducted in a fair and nonpartisan manner, including access to services necessary to all members and their offices, without regard to the members conference.

§ 3. The Conference leaders shall not serve in such capacity longer than eight years.

§ 4. The Senate may choose a Secretary, a Sergeant at Arms and an Official Stenographer who shall be elected for the term of the Senate. Such employees may be appointed as shall be provided for by appropriation, in the manner provided by law. Each officer and employee of the Sena…

§ 5. a. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to have the journals, bills, calendars, messages and other documents printed and distributed in the manner provided by law. He or she shall present to the Governor, and enter upon the journals, such bills as shall have originated in t…

§ 6. The Sergeant at Arms, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, shall be the security officer of the Senate, and, except when absent in the discharge of his or her duties, shall be in constant attendance upon the sessions of the Senate and shall assign Assistant Sergeants at …

§ 7. The Official Stenographer or designee shall attend every session of the Senate and take stenographic notes of the debates of the Senate. He or she shall make a stenographic record of the proceedings and make copies available to the Secretary of the Senate. In addition, the O…

RULE VI PROCEEDINGS

Section 1. a. The Journal. The Senate shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The legislative and executive proceedings of the Senate shall each be recorded in a separate journal. b. Video of Senate proceedings. The …

§ 2. Hours in session. No session shall be held between 12:00 A.M. and 8:00 A.M.; provided, however, that the Senate may remain in session to complete action on a measure or measures upon which debate was begun prior to 12:00 A.M. or to act on a measure or measures for which a me…

§ 3. Order of Business. a. The Presiding Officer shall take the Chair at the hour to which the Senate shall have adjourned and following a recital of the pledge of allegiance to the flag, the first business of the day shall be the reading of the journal of the preceding day, to t…

§ 4. Messages. Messages from the Governor and Assembly, communications and reports from State officers, reports from a committee involving the right of a Senator to his or her seat, and reports from the Committee on Rules shall be received at any time.

§ 5. Special orders. Whenever any bill or other matter is made a special order for a particular day, and it shall not be completed on that day, it shall, unless otherwise ordered, retain its place on the calendar as a special order in the order of business in which it was conside…

§ 6. Calendar. a. The matters upon the Senate Calendar shall be arranged and acted upon in the following order: (1) Resolutions. (2) Bills on order of first report. (3) Bills on order of second report. (4) Bills on order of special report. (5) Bills starred after report. (6) Bill…

§ 7. Executive Session. The Senate shall go into consideration of executive business at such times as may be ordered by a vote of the majority of the Senators present. On motion to close the doors of the Senate, on the discussion of business which in the opinion of any Senator ma…

§ 8. Motions. a. When a question is before the Senate, only the following motions shall be made by a Senator, and such motions shall have precedence in the order here stated, viz.: (1) For an adjournment. (2) For a call of the Senate. (3) For the previous question. (4) To lay on …

§ 9. Reconsideration. a. When a question has once been put and decided, it shall be in order for any Senator to move for the reconsideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after the bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, nomina…

RULE VII INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Section 1. Introduction. Bills and resolutions shall be introduced by a Senator, or on the report of a committee, or by message from the Assembly, or by order of the Senate, or by the Governor pursuant to Article VII of the Constitution. Every bill introduced shall be in duplicat…

§ 2. Multi-sponsorship. Any Senator may join together in the multi-sponsorship of a bill. If two or more Senators join together when a bill is first introduced and before it is printed, the names of all multi-sponsors shall appear on the printed bill upon the following conditions…

§ 3. Printing. Every bill immediately upon its introduction shall be printed and placed on the bill files on the desks of the Senators, where it shall remain for at least three calendar legislative days. All bills reported favorably or for consideration, if reported with amendmen…

§ 4. Title and body of bill. The title of every bill shall briefly state the subject thereof. The title of every bill amending or repealing any provision of a consolidated law shall refer to such law. The title of every bill amending or repealing any unconsolidated law shall refe…

§ 5. Final date. a. The Majority Coalition Leaders may designate a date in writing after which no bill or original resolution shall be introduced except by message from the Assembly, but no date prior to the first Tuesday of March shall be so designated; provided, however, that a…

§ 6. Budget bills. When a bill is submitted or proposed by the Governor by authority of Article VII of the Constitution, it shall become, for all legislative purposes, a legislative bill, and upon receipt thereof by the Senate it shall be endorsed "Budget Bill" and be given a num…

§ 7. Program, departmental and agency bills. Every bill proposed by the Governor, the Attorney General, the Comptroller or by state departments and agencies shall be submitted to the office of the Temporary President and shall be forwarded by the Majority Coalition Leaders for in…

§ 8. Reintroduction. Any Senate bill introduced in the first year of the term of the Senate which during that regular Legislative Session was not reported from a Standing Committee or if reported and later recommitted to a Standing Committee is deemed to be automatically reintrod…

§ 9. Resolutions. a. All original resolutions shall be in quadruplicate, and no original resolution may be introduced unless copies thereof first shall have been furnished, to the extent practicable, forty-eight hours prior to the time for acting on such resolution to respective …

RULE VIII STANDING COMMITTEES

Section 1. There shall be the following standing committees which shall serve and shall continue throughout the year: To consist of thirty-seven Senators: Finance To consist of twenty-five Senators: Rules To consist of twenty-three Senators: Judiciary To consist of nineteen Senat…

§ 2. Committee on Rules. The Committee on Rules may sit at any time and shall report bills out of committee only if they shall have been duly reported to the Committee on Rules from a standing committee of origin, or from a committee of secondary reference, or if the chair of suc…

§ 3. Open Meetings of Standing Committees. a. (1) Standing committees shall hold regular meetings at such time and on such day as the Majority Coalition Leaders in consultation with the chair and such schedule shall be published one week in advance of the date of such meeting and…

§ 4. Hearings. a. Committee hearings. Chairs of standing committees may call public hearings to permit interested persons, groups or organizations the opportunity to testify orally or in writing on legislation or issues pending before such standing committee. Chairs are encourage…

§ 5. Reports. a. No committee shall vote to report a bill or other matter unless a majority of all the members thereof vote in favor of such report. Each report of a committee upon a bill shall have the vote of each Senator attached thereto and such report and vote shall be avail…

§ 6. Nominations. Unless the Senate orders otherwise, all nominations sent by the Governor for the appointment of any officer shall be submitted to the Temporary President who shall then refer such nominations simultaneously to the Finance Committee, and the appropriate standing …

§ 7. Finance Committee. A bill or resolution providing for an appropriation or creating or increasing a charge upon the State Treasury shall, when reported by any committee other than the Finance Committee, be referred to the Finance Committee, and the committee reporting such bi…

§ 8. New York City Education Subcommittee. The Committee on education shall have a permanent subcommittee, consisting of six members, on New York City Education. The chairperson, ranking member and membership of the New York City Education subcommittee shall be appointed by the M…

RULE IX PASSAGE OF BILLS

Section 1. Bills on desks. No bill shall be passed unless it shall have been printed and upon the desk of each Senator in its final form at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the Governor or acting Governor shall have certified, under his or …

§ 2. Reading of bills. a. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed. b. Upon the third reading of a bill, the question upon its final passage shall be taken immediately thereafter; provided, however, that any bill may be committed prior to the final rea…

§ 3. Third reading calendar. a. The Calendar of bills on the order of third reading shall consist of all bills which have been advanced to a third reading from the order of second report or the order of special report. b. All Senate bills, when advanced to a third reading shall b…

§ 4. Amendments. a. A non-sponsor may move to amend a bill at any time prior to the completion of its third reading provided that at least two hours before the time for the Senate to convene, a copy of the proposed amendment or amendments to any bill on the list of bills compiled…

§ 5. Substitution. When a bill is received as a message from the Assembly, or at any time thereafter, and a Senate bill, identical therewith, is on the order of third reading, or in the order of first or second report, the Assembly bill may be substituted for the Senate bill upon…

§ 6. Final passage. a. Prior to the reading of the third reading calendar of any given day, the Majority Coalition Leaders may jointly file with the Journal Clerk an active list of bills on the third reading calendar which may be acted upon on that date and he or she may lay asid…

§ 7. Starred bills. a. A bill appearing on the calendar may be "starred" only by or on behalf of the introducer, whereupon all further action on such bill shall be suspended, although it retains its place on the Calendar. b. Other than for the purpose of amendment or recommittal,…

§ 8. Recall and concurrence. All Senate bills amended by the Assembly, and returned to the Senate, for its concurrence, and all bills amended by the report of a conference committee, shall be subject to the provisions of section one of this Rule.