STATE OF NEW YORK
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3298
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 15, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 2 of article 3 of the constitution, in
relation to imposing term limits for members of the legislature
1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 2 of arti-
2 cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
3 § 2. The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter
4 provided. The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred
5 and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three years, and their
6 successors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall consist of
7 one hundred and fifty members. The assembly members elected in the year
8 one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, and their successors, shall
9 be chosen for two years.
10 No person elected to office in two thousand fourteen and in subsequent
11 years shall serve as a member of the legislature for more than four
12 consecutive terms or for sixteen years, whichever is longer, whether
13 such service is as a senator, assembly member, or consecutive terms as a
14 senator and an assembly member; provided that any partial term of office
15 held as a member of the legislature prior to the election to a consec-
16 utive full term shall not be used to calculate any term limitation
17 imposed pursuant to this paragraph.
18 § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the provisions of the
19 foregoing amendments shall apply only to terms of office commencing
20 after such amendments shall have been adopted pursuant to section 1 of
21 article 19 of the constitution.
22 § 3. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendments
23 be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
24 next succeeding general election of the members of the assembly, and, in
25 conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
26 published for three months previous to the time of such election.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD89105-01-1
