N.Y. Senate Rules Rule 7, § 2: Multi-sponsorship

§ 2. Multi-sponsorship. Any Senator may join together in the

multi-sponsorship of a bill. If two or more Senators join together when

a bill is first introduced and before it is printed, the names of all

multi-sponsors shall appear on the printed bill upon the following

conditions:

a. Multi-sponsors shall file a written request in duplicate to act as

such, on forms provided, with the Revision Clerk of the Senate. The

first name appearing on the bill shall be deemed the introducer and all

others deemed multi-sponsors.

b. The introducer shall at all times retain exclusive control of the

bill until formally acted upon by the Senate and any motion to discharge

a bill out of committee by a member who is not the introducer of the

bill shall be out of order.

c. After a multi-sponsored bill has been printed, any multi-sponsor

desiring to withdraw from such multi-sponsorship shall file a written

request on a form provided so that his or her name will be stricken as a

multi-sponsor from the records of the Revision Clerk. The printed bill,

however, shall not be reprinted.

d. Senators and Senators-elect may multi-sponsor bills that have been

pre-filed and bills introduced after the opening of each legislative

session upon the following conditions:

(1) After a bill has been introduced and printed and before it has

been reported favorably out of the Committee to which it was referred,

any Senator or Senators may file with the Revision Clerk a request on a

form provided to become a multi-sponsor of such bill. Such forms must be

signed by the multi-sponsor.

(2) Such bill shall not be reprinted solely for the purpose of adding

or deleting names of multi-sponsors.

(3) Any Senator, having become a multi-sponsor of a bill, may withdraw

from such by filing a request on a form provided to the Revision Clerk

requesting that his or her name be stricken as a multi-sponsor from the

record.

(4) Any Senator who has become a multi-sponsor of a bill in the manner

set forth herein shall have the right to distribute such bill bearing an

endorsement by rubber stamp or otherwise the words "multi-sponsored by"

and insert his or her own name as multi-sponsor.