Requires that each appointment to an office by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate shall be voted on individually by the senate; provides that nominations may not be considered, confirmed or rejected as a slate or group; requires that all votes be conducted with a roll call vote with each senator's vote noted on the record.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9150
IN SENATE
February 6, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to voting by the
senate on nominations of the governor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter
2 230 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 7. Appointment by the governor and senate. 1. An appointment to an
4 office by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate,
5 shall be made by communicating to the senate, while in session, a writ-
6 ten nomination of a person for the office, designating the residence of
7 the nominee, and if nominated to be an officer of a political subdivi-
8 sion of the state, designating also such subdivision, and if nominating
9 two or more persons to the same office for different terms, designating
10 the term for which each is nominated. If such nomination be of a succes-
11 sor to a predecessor in the same office, it may be made and acted upon
12 by the senate after the expiration of the term or occurrence of a vacan-
13 cy in the office of such predecessor, or at any time during the legisla-
14 tive session of the calendar year in which the term of office of such
15 predecessor shall expire or in which the office shall become vacant. If
16 the appointment be made before the expiration of the term of such prede-
17 cessor, the term of office of the appointee shall commence upon the
18 expiration of the term of such predecessor, or if made to fill a vacan-
19 cy, upon the occurrence of such vacancy, or immediately if a vacancy
20 already [exist] exists. If the senate shall reject such nomination, the
21 secretary of the senate shall forthwith communicate, by writing, signed
22 by [him] the secretary and by the president of the senate, to the gover-
23 nor the fact of such rejection. If the senate shall confirm such nomi-
24 nation the appointment shall be deemed complete, and thereupon duplicate
25 certificates of the confirmation shall be made and signed by the presi-
26 dent and secretary of the senate, who shall cause one to be delivered to
27 the governor and the other to the secretary of state, who shall record
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the same in [his] the secretary's office in a book kept for that
2 purpose.
3 2. Each appointment subject to this section shall be voted on individ-
4 ually; nominations may not be considered, confirmed or rejected as a
5 slate or group. All votes shall be conducted with a roll call vote with
6 each senator's vote noted on the record.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
8 have become a law and shall apply to nominations made on and after such
9 effective date. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
10 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
11 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
12 on or before such effective date.
