STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5682 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi- gations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring bills containing an unfunded mandate for a county or municipality to be referred to the state comptroller for opinion before being certified The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 40 of the legislative law, as amended by chapter 2 366 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 40. Certificate of presiding officer. Upon the passage by either 4 house of the legislature of a bill, concurrent resolution proposing 5 amendments to the state constitution, or concurrent resolution proposing 6 or ratifying amendments to the constitution of the United States, the 7 presiding or other officer designated by the rules of such house shall 8 append to such bill or resolution a certificate, to be signed by him, 9 which shall disclose the date of its passage in such house, and whether 10 passed by the votes of a majority of all the members elected to such 11 house or of two-thirds thereof, or of a majority of such members, three- 12 fifths thereof being present. In addition, if any such bill has been 13 passed on a message required by the constitution, that fact also shall 14 be stated, and if the message so specifies, the applicable portion of 15 the constitution shall be identified. Upon the passage of a bill as to 16 which a part becomes law immediately and a part requires further action 17 by the governor, two copies shall be certified as above provided, one of 18 which, upon final passage by both houses, shall be transmitted to the 19 governor and the other to the secretary of state. No bills shall be 20 deemed to have so passed unless certified in the manner provided by this 21 section, which certificate to such effect shall be conclusive evidence 22 thereof. No bill containing a mandate for any county or municipality in 23 this state that does not include a provision of funding to such county EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09169-01-3S. 5682 2 1 or municipality by the state shall be certified in the manner provided 2 by this section until such bill has been delivered to the state comp- 3 troller for opinion, and such opinion is delivered to both houses of the 4 legislature and to the governor. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.