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2019
ASSEMBLY RULES
Legislative Rules Reform
Resource Page
(Backstory to How the Legislature Operates)
CJA's October 2, 2019 FOIL/records request --
"Resolutions Pertaining to Assembly
Rules for 2019-2020"
VIDEO of January 9, 2019 Assembly Session
transcript -- at pp. 24-25
E.6 -- Assembly Rules
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
VIDEO of January 22, 2019 Assembly Session
transcript: pp. 135-160
E.25
amending Rule IV,
§7: motion to discharge
from committee, when sponsored by 76 members
E.26
"No message of
necessity shall be accepted from the Governor unless
at last
two-thirds of the members of the House have approved the message."
E.27
amending Rule IV,
§1: membership of
standing committees
E.28
amending Rule III,
§5: resolutions to be
on members' desks for three days
E.29
amending Rule
V,
§2:
"during each two-year term of the
Assembly, each member shall be entitled
to have at least one
substantive piece of legislation, of his or her choosing...
discharged from committeee and brought to the floor for a vote on
the merits."
E.30
amending Rule V,
§:
"limiting of the number of terms
of the minority leader of the
assembly or the majority leader of the assembly"
E.31
amending Rule
IV,
§2:
requiring all committee votes be recorded --
E.32
amending Rule 1,
§1c; Rule IV,
§2:
prevents substitution of committee members
-- 24 hr notice
E.33
amending Rule III,
§3a:
time-frame for processing of
multi-sponsorship forms by index clerk -- within 5 days
E.34
amending Rule
§ -- greater access to committee
process/transparency
empowering committee members -- if 1/3
petition, committee chair must call hearing
E.35
amending Rule V,
§9
ranking members or minority leadership have
sufficient resources
E.36
amending Rule I
restricts 8-year term for Assembly speaker
E.37
amending Rule 2,
§2 --
on over night hours unless voted by 2/3
elected members
E.38
amending Rule IV
--
limiting term of committee chairs to 8 years
E.39
Rule IV,
§2
--
"audio and/or video
broadcast of committee meetings"
Assembly passing rules change:
March 21, 2016 session
(at 1:25 hr)
not yet implemented & required by April
30, 2019
click here for
Assembly Speaker Heastie's "Workgroup on Legislative Process,
Operations, & Public Participation"
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