Title CMS, Senate Rules

Section 1. Requirement of Fiscal Impact Notes. Fiscal impact notes\nshall be required for all bills and amendments, other than those\nexcepted as provided in section four hereof, which would substantially\naffect the revenues or expenses, or both, of any county, city, town,\nvill…

§ 2. Sufficiency and Contents of Fiscal Impact Notes. Fiscal impact\nnotes shall be deemed sufficient for purposes of this Joint Rule if\nprepared in conformity with this section.\n A. Scope of fiscal estimates. Fiscal impact upon political\nsubdivisions shall be estimated on the…

§ 3. Procedure. A. (i) The Temporary President of the Senate and the\nSpeaker of the Assembly shall each designate a person in such officer's\nrespective house to examine each bill in such house, without regard to\nits house of origin, for the purpose of ascertaining whether a fi…

§ 4. Exceptions. A fiscal impact note shall not be required for a\nbill:\n A. subject to the provisions of section 50 of the Legislative Law;\n B. requested by a county, city, town or village in accordance with the\nprovisions of paragraph two of subdivision (b) of section two of…

§ 5. Effect of Inaccuracy. If the estimate or estimates contained in a\nfiscal impact note are inaccurate, such inaccuracy shall not affect,\nimpair or invalidate such bill.\n

§ 6. Application. The provisions of this Joint Rule shall apply to\nbills and amendments proposed for introduction at the nineteen hundred\neighty-five regular legislative session and permanently thereafter.\n

Section 1. Committee on Conference. The Temporary President of the\nSenate and the Speaker of the Assembly may jointly convene a Joint\nCommittee on Conference to consider and report upon substantially\nsimilar but not identical legislation that has passed each House of the\nLegi…

Section 1. Budget Consideration Schedule. In accordance with section\n54-a of the Legislative Law, within ten days of the submission of the\nbudget by the Governor pursuant to article VII of the Constitution, the\nTemporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly …

§ 2. Joint Budget Conference Committee. In accordance with section\n54-a of the Legislative Law, within ten days of the submission of the\nbudget by the Governor pursuant to article VII of the Constitution, the\nTemporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly sh…

Section 1. Joint Advisory Board on Broadcast of State Government\nProceedings. The Temporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of\nthe Assembly shall convene a bi-partisan, bi-cameral joint advisory\nboard to oversee current and future broadcast of New York State\nGovernmen…

§ 2. Duties of the Joint Advisory Board. The joint advisory board\nshall engage in such activities as it deems necessary for the\npreparation and formulation of a report to review the efficacy of\ncurrent programming and explore future expansion of such to include\nadditional leg…

RULE I\nTHE PRESIDENT\n

RULE X\nSENATORS\n

Section 1. Attendance and vote. a. Every Senator shall be present\nwithin the Senate Chamber during the sessions of the Senate, unless duly\nexcused or necessarily prevented, and shall vote on each question for\nwhich a vote is required stated from the Chair unless excused by the…

§ 10. District Offices. All Senators will receive funds to maintain a\ndistrict office. Rents of district offices shall be based on a cost\nformula of office rental costs of an equal class of commercial office\nspace based on the prevailing rent in the community where the Senator…

§ 11. Allocation for Community Projects. Each conference shall receive\nan allocation from any amounts to be awarded by the Senate for community\nprojects, capital spending, local assistance or other similar\nallocations for member driven initiatives. The Majority Coalition shall…

§ 2. Quorum. a. A majority of all the Senators elected shall\nconstitute a quorum to do business. In case a less number than a quorum\nof the Senate shall convene, those present are authorized to send the\nSergeant at Arms, or any other person, for the absent Senators.\n b. The a…

§ 3. Debate. a. Debate shall only be in order when it is germane to\nthe question under discussion.\n b. If the question in debate contains several points, a Senator may\nhave the same divided, provided the division called for embodies a\ndistinct principle or statement of fact.\…

§ 4. Order and decorum. a. Prior to the order of business, the\npresiding officer shall ask those in the chamber to rise and pledge\nallegiance to the flag. Those in attendance shall remain standing during\nthe daily invocation and until asked to take their seats by the\npresidin…

§ 5. Presentation of papers. a. A Senator presenting a paper shall\nendorse the same with his or her name and a brief written statement of\nthe subject of its contents.\n b. When the reading of a paper is called for, except petitions, and\nthe same is objected to by any Senator, …

§ 6. Call of the Senate. For the purpose of securing the attendance of\nSenators, a call of the Senate may be ordered at any time, but such call\nshall not be in order after the voting on any question has begun, nor\nafter the third reading of a bill has been completed, nor after…

§ 7. Absences. In all cases of absence of Senators during the sessions\nof the Senate, the Temporary President or a majority of the Senators\nelected may take such measures as they deem necessary to secure the\npresence of the absentees, and in addition to suspension for a given\…

§ 8. Staffing. All Senators shall receive the same base allocation of\nfunds for staffing their offices. Additional funding for\nresponsibilities associated with committees and leadership positions\nshall be allocated within amounts available for committee and leadership\nstaff; …

§ 9. Resources. All Senators shall have equitable access to the\nresources of the Senate, including, but not limited to, office supplies,\ncommunications and audio visual resources, mail privileges subject to\npublished guidelines, technology, including both hardware and software…

RULE XI\nSENATE CHAMBERS\n

Section 1. Open doors. The doors of the Senate shall be kept open,\nexcept when the public welfare shall require secrecy.\n

§ 2. Admission to floor. Persons not members of the Senate, or\nofficers or employees thereof, shall be admitted to the floor of the\nSenate only as follows:\n a. The Governor, his or her secretary and messenger.\n b. The members and Clerk of the Assembly, and clerks and messenge…

RULE XII\nSUSPENSION OF THE RULES\n

Section 1. Resolution to amend the Senate Rules. No amendment to the\nSenate Rules shall be considered by the Senate unless a resolution for\nsuch amendment, together with a memorandum specifying the purpose of the\nproposed amendment, suspension, or rescission, shall be introduc…

§ 2. Motion for Chamber Consideration. a. It shall be in order for any\nSenator, who is the sponsor of a bill that is on the Senate's Third\nReading Calendar, to move for chamber consideration of such bill. Such\nmotion shall require an affirmative vote of three-fifths of members…

§ 3. Petition for Consideration. a. The sponsor of any bill may file\nwith the Journal Clerk, no less than forty-five days after a bill has\nbeen referred to a committee, a petition requesting that such bill be\nmoved to the calendar for consideration. Such petition shall be file…

RULE XIII\nADJOURNMENT\n

Section 1. The Senate shall not adjourn for more than two days without\nthe consent of the Assembly.\n

RULE XIV\nGUIDELINES FOR A SYSTEM OF INTERNAL CONTROLS\n

Section 1. Pursuant to Article 6 of the Legislative Law as enacted by\nthe New York state governmental accountability, audit and internal\ncontrol act of 1987, the following guidelines for a System of Internal\nControl are hereby established:\n a. all financial transactions shall…

§ 2. Expenditure reporting. The Temporary President shall establish a\nsystem of expenditure reporting whereby expenditures of the Senate shall\nbe reported by such categories as he or she shall determine. Reports of\nexpenditures by such system shall be published in a form to be…

RULE XV\nFREEDOM OF INFORMATION\n

Section 1. a. Publication of records relating to Senate legislative\nand administrative records. Recognizing that legislative records\navailable by request under the "freedom of information law" are of\nimportant public interest, the Senate shall make available through a\nsearcha…

RULE XVI\nTELEVISING SENATE SESSION\n

Section 1. Any televised proceedings of sessions of the Senate shall\nbe made available for statewide television broadcast, pursuant to the\nfollowing:\n a. All televised proceedings of the Senate session shall be unedited,\nexcept that only accredited news organizations, educati…

§ 2. The televised proceedings of sessions of the Senate as provided\nfor in section one of this Rule, in any form, shall be deemed the\nproperty of the New York State Senate.\n PERMANENT JOINT RULES OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY\n

Section 1. The Lieutenant Governor of the State shall be President of\nthe Senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein.\n

RULE II\nSENATE COMPOSITION\n

Section 1. The Senate shall be composed of three conferences; the\nRepublican Conference, the Democratic Conference and the Independent\nDemocratic Conference. Designation of the leaders and members of each\nconference shall be filed in the Senate Journal upon the approval of the…

RULE III\nTHE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT\n

Section 1. The Senate shall be the judge of the elections, returns and\nqualifications of its own members and the Senate shall choose a\nTemporary President, by resolution adopted upon the vote of a majority\nof the members of the Senate elected, and who shall preside, or\ndesign…

§ 2. He or she shall appoint and designate the Officers of the Senate,\nthe chair, vice-chair and members of all committees and sub-committees,\nexcept when the Senate shall otherwise order.\n

§ 3. The Chair of the Committee on Rules shall be the Majority\nCoalition Conference Leader with the greater number of Conference\nmembers.\n

§ 4. He or she shall appoint, in conjunction with the Speaker of the\nAssembly and the Legislative Librarian, an Assistant Legislative\nLibrarian, to have charge and custody of all legislative documents, as\ndefined in this section, who shall be responsible for collecting,\nnumbe…

§ 5. He or she shall represent the Senate, or engage legal\nrepresentation on behalf of the Senate, in any legal action or\nproceeding involving the interpretation or effect of any law of the\nfederal, state or local government or the constitutionality thereof or\nwith regard to …