The NYS Legislature has a website with all pending bills and their status for the 2019-2020 sessions. Feel free to post the link of the current bill(s) so everyone can be fully informed of it, who the sponsors are, and all NY voters can contact their representatives as may be appropriate.
Me personally, I'm just sitting out here in Wyoming shaking my head at everyone living along the coasts, and hoping the polar glacial melt hurries the fuck up because I want some fresh from the ocean shrimp without having to drive so damn far into occupied territory to catch it.
Enjoy your life in Wyoming. Not everyone has the choice to just pick up and leave the state their entire life revolves around. Just because it isn't a pending bill on the legislative website doesn't mean it isn't being talked about.
This is how we roll in NY
The Safe Act "emergency": How Cuomo, past governors bypassed public to make laws
Updated Mar 13, 2013; Posted Mar 13, 2013
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs the NY Safe Act in the company of legislative leaders. Cuomo invoked a message of necessity to bypass the three-day waiting period for legislation.
(Photo by The Associated Press)
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Michelle Breidenbach
[email protected],
syracuse.com
Albany, NY - Opponents of New York’s new gun laws
are demanding answers about how Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York state Legislature can rush bills into law with little time for anyone to even read the bill.
The NY Safe Act was passed with no hearings, no testimony, no time for opponents to make a case to their legislators.
It’s not the first time a controversial bill was turned into a midnight emergency.
Others include same-sex marriage, pension reforms, requiring annual teacher evaluations, and, in some years, the entire state budget. It was an emergency to pass tax credits for brownfields clean-up, which had the unintended consequence of paying the
Destiny USA developers $56 million in public money for a clean-up project that experts say could not have cost more than $1 million.
The New York State Constitution gives governors a tool to use to get a law passed as soon as enough legislators say yes and before anyone else can get to them. In the case of gun laws, it has angered the public like no other rushed bill. But creating emergency legislation is a time-honored practice in Albany.
Bill Mahoney, researcher at New York Public Interest Research Group, pulled together a list of the 415 times a “message of necessity” has been used to pass something the state deemed an “emergency.”
