Requires approval by 2/3 vote of membership of the senate and assembly voting separately to increase or decrease any tax rate, impose a new state tax, extend or delete existing state tax.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6357
SPONSOR: Palmesano (MS) TITLE OF BILL:
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment
to section 14 of article 3 of the constitution, in relation to the
procedure for voting increases in the rate of state taxes
PURPOSE:
Requires two-thirds vote of the State Legislature for any increase,
extension, imposition or restoration of any tax, fee, assessment,
surcharge or any other such levy change, except any bill which results
from the passage of a home rule message.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This legislation is a constitutional amendment which would require a
two-third's majority vote, rather than a simple majority vote in the
Senate and Assembly for any increase, extension, imposition or restora-
tion of any tax, fee, assessment, surcharge or any other such levy
change, except any bill which results from the passage of a home rule.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, only a majority vote is required for legislation to be passed
which raises new revenue. This legislation would require broad and over-
whelming support for any revenue increase to ensure that the increased
revenue was truly vital to the entire State. It will be one more tool in
restraining the runaway budget spending that we saw over the past couple
of years and it will help curtail the use of New York's taxpayers as the
State's ATM.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2019-2020 S.7564; 2017-18 A.4669; 2015-16 A.4665; 2013-14 S.1683,
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Will force the State to live within its current means.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
In the State fiscal year that this amendment is ratified.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6357
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO,
FRIEND, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MILLER, MORINELLO, RA, REILLY,
TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY,
SMITH, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
mental Operations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
proposing an amendment to section 14 of article 3 of the constitution,
in relation to the procedure for voting increases in the rate of state
taxes
1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 14 of article
2 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
3 § 14. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have
4 been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at
5 least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless
6 the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under [his
7 or her] their hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in [his or
8 her] the governor's opinion necessitate an immediate vote thereon, in
9 which case it must nevertheless be upon the desks of the members in
10 final form, not necessarily printed, before its final passage; nor shall
11 any bill, except as provided herein, be passed or become a law, except
12 by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each branch of the
13 legislature; nor shall any bill which increases, extends, imposes, or
14 revives any tax, fee, assessment, surcharge or any other such levy or
15 collection, except any bill which results from the passage of a home
16 rule message pursuant to section two of article nine of this constitu-
17 tion, be passed or become a law, except by the assent of two-thirds of
18 the members elected to each branch of the legislature voting separately;
19 and upon the last reading of a bill, no amendment thereof shall be
20 allowed, and the question upon its final passage shall be taken imme-
21 diately thereafter, and the ayes and nays entered on the journal.
22 For purposes of this section, a bill shall be deemed to be printed and
23 upon the desks of the members if: it is set forth in a legible electron-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ic format by electronic means, and it is available for review in such
2 format at the desks of the members. For purposes of this section "elec-
3 tronic means" means any method of transmission of information between
4 computers or other machines designed for the purpose of sending and
5 receiving such transmissions and which: allows the recipient to
6 reproduce the information transmitted in a tangible medium of
7 expression; and does not permit additions, deletions or other changes to
8 be made without leaving an adequate record thereof.
9 § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
10 referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
11 next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in
12 conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
13 published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.
