N.Y. Senate Rules Rule 8, § 5: Reports

§ 5. Reports. a. No committee shall vote to report a bill or other

matter unless a majority of all the members thereof vote in favor of

such report. Each report of a committee upon a bill shall have the vote

of each Senator attached thereto and such report and vote shall be

available for public inspection. A member's vote on any matter before

the committee shall be entered by the member on a signed official voting

sheet delivered to the Committee Chair.

Any standing committee having secondary subject matter jurisdiction

over a bill may request the chair of the committee having primary

subject matter jurisdiction over said bill (which is the committee to

which the said bill has been referred by the Majority Coalition Leaders

pursuant to Rule VII) to commit the bill to the committee with secondary

subject matter jurisdiction either when the bill is still in the primary

committee or after it has been reported to the calendar. If the chair of

the primary committee refuses said request, then the committee having

secondary jurisdiction, through its chair, may request the Majority

Coalition Leaders to consider such secondary referencing. If a secondary

reference is so made, the secondary committee shall consider the bill

forthwith and return said bill to the primary committee or the calendar,

as the case may be, along with the secondary committee's

recommendations.

All committee reports, after the second Friday in June, shall be made

directly to the Committee on Rules. Notwithstanding any provision of

Rule VII, the Committee on Rules shall have the authority to introduce

and refer bills to itself and shall also have the authority to refer to

itself any bill from any standing committee.

Every report of a committee upon a bill which shall not be considered

at the time of making the same, or laid on the table by a vote of the

Senate, shall stand upon the calendar in the order of first report with

the bill and be entered upon the journal.

b. Each bill reported by a standing committee shall be accompanied by

a report, and the Democratic Conference shall file a Democratic

Conference committee report within seven days of the bill being reported

out of committee and said reports shall be filed with the journal clerk.

The report of a committee upon any matter referred to it shall upon

request include a brief statement of the opinion of any member or

members of the committee voting in either the majority or minority.

c. Where a "home rule" request is required as provided in any section

of Article IX of the Constitution, such request, certificate or message

must be filed with the Journal Clerk of the Senate before final passage

of such bill.

d. Where a message of necessity is received from the Governor, such

message shall be filed with the Journal Clerk of the Senate upon final

passage of the bill.