New York Senate Bill S03292 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3292--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 30, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the state law, in relation to providing for a procedure for review of an apportionment by the legislature or other body which brings any such review to the supreme court of Albany county The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Article 8 of the state law is amended by adding a new 2 title 4 to read as follows: 3 TITLE IV 4 ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS CHALLENGING APPORTIONMENT 5 Section 130. Actions or proceedings challenging apportionment. 6 § 130. Actions or proceedings challenging apportionment. a. An appor- 7 tionment by the legislature shall be subject to review by the supreme 8 court of Albany county at the suit of any citizen, upon the petition of 9 any citizen to the supreme court of Albany county and upon such service 10 thereof upon the attorney-general, the president of the senate, the 11 speaker of the assembly and the governor, as a justice of the supreme 12 court of Albany county may direct. 13 b. No limitation of the time for commencing an action shall affect any 14 proceeding hereinbefore mentioned, or any appeal in any existing action 15 or proceeding in which the validity of an apportionment is or may be in 16 issue, if commenced within the period during which such apportionment is 17 in force may exist; and nothing in this act shall impair any existing 18 remedy by which the validity of an apportionment may be determined. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00349-02-4