N.Y. Assembly Rules Rule 4, § 6: Reports

§ 6. Reports. a. A standing committee may report any bill, either with

or without amendments, or it may report adversely to the same or it may

report that a bill has been held for further action and/or study. Upon a

favorable report of the committee on an Assembly Bill amended by the

Senate, the bill shall appear upon the Calendar under the heading

"Assembly Bills amended by the Senate".

b. A report of a committee must contain the name of the committee

making the same, the matter reported on, the name of the introducer and

if a bill or resolution, the number of such bill or resolution. Such

report shall state whether such matter was reported:

(1) favorably, with or without amendments or referred to another

committee;

(2) for the consideration of the House;

(3) adversely;

(4) for concurring in Senate amendments;

(5) for repassing a Senate bill which has been recalled and amended;

or

(6) held for further action and/or study.

c. If the report be on a resolution, petition, memorial or

remonstrance it must contain the recommendations, if any, of the

committee thereon.

d. A list of the bills reported under their final numbers shall be

filed by the clerks of the committees with the Speaker, the Majority

Leader, the Minority Leader, the Clerk of the Assembly, the Office of

Assembly Revision and the Index Clerk. The Committee on Rules shall not

be required to file such lists with the Speaker, the Majority Leader or

the Minority Leader.

e. All bills, except budget appropriation bills, reported favorably or

for consideration, if reported with amendments, shall be reprinted

immediately, and all new matter proposed by the committee to be added or

inserted in existing law shall be underscored and all matter to be

eliminated from existing law, shall be printed in its proper place

enclosed in black-faced brackets. Where a committee amends a bill by

eliminating proposed new matter, such new matter shall be omitted in the

reprint of the bill.

f. All budget appropriation bills reported favorably or for

consideration, if reported with amendments, shall be immediately

reprinted, and the amendments proposed by the committee shall be

underscored in their proper place except in cases where the committee

recommends eliminating certain words or figures, in which cases such

words or figures shall be printed enclosed in black-faced brackets.

g. All bills favorably reported shall, if the report be agreed to, be

placed on the order of second reading, except that any bill providing

for a state appropriation, or creating or increasing a charge (i) upon

the state or (ii) upon a local government shall, when favorably reported

by any committee other than the Committee on Ways and Means, be referred

to the Committee on Ways and Means. In the event such a bill is not

referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, the chairperson of such

Committee may require such referral, subject to the approval of the

Speaker. Where a committee report is not agreed to, the bill shall be

before the House for disposition.

h. Any bill, the subject matter of which is also within the

jurisdiction of another committee of the House may, subject to the

approval of the Speaker, be favorably reported and referred or simply

referred to such other committee for review and recommendation only.

i. Any bill which is referred to a standing committee other than the

Committee on Codes and which:

(1) imposes or changes any fine, term of imprisonment, forfeiture of

rights or other penal sanction; or

(2) relates to the procedure by which such fine, term of imprisonment,

forfeiture of rights or other penal sanction is imposed or changed,

shall, when favorably reported by the committee having original

jurisdiction, be referred to the Committee on Codes for the purpose of

having such Committee review and consider only such penalty or

procedural provisions of such bill and to thereafter favorably report

such bill with amendments, if necessary, to such penalty or procedural

provisions. In the event that such a bill is not referred to the

Committee on Codes, the chairperson of such Committee may require such

referral, subject to the approval of the Speaker.

j. Where a bill has been reported adversely, and such report shall be

agreed to by the House, it shall be considered rejected. No bill shall

be reported adversely by any committee until ten days after the

reference of such bill to the committee and the bill shall have been

printed and been upon the desks of the members for ten days.

k. No bill shall be reported by a committee, except in its last

amended form at the time of such report. Whenever a bill which is in

committee is amended, the clerk of such committee shall promptly return

to the Office of Journal Operations the original copy of such bill.

l. Where a "home rule" request, or a certificate of necessity or an

emergency message from the Governor is required as provided in any

section of Article IX or Article XIII of the Constitution, such request,

certificate or message must be filed with the Office of Journal

Operations before such bill can be reported by a committee.

m. Concurrent resolutions proposing amendments to the State

Constitution shall be initially referred to the standing committee

having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the contents of such

resolution. Such concurrent resolution shall, when favorably reported by

such committee, be referred to the Committee on Judiciary for final

consideration. In the event that such a resolution is not referred to

the Committee on Judiciary, the chairperson of such Committee may

require such referral subject to the approval of the Speaker.

n. On and after the first legislative day in June, all bills favorably

reported by a standing committee which would otherwise be placed on the

order of second reading shall be referred, in accordance with paragraph

one of subdivision b of section ten of Rule IV, to the Committee on

Rules.