{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-assembly-rules-rule-4-2","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Assembly Rules Rule 4, § 2","heading":"Meetings of standing committees","body":"§ 2. Meetings  of  standing  committees.  a.    Meetings  of  standing\ncommittees.  Standing committees shall hold meetings at a regular weekly\ntime  and  day as scheduled by the committee chairperson in consultation\nwith the committee coordinators, as designated by the Speaker, and  such\nset  time  shall  be posted on the Assembly committee board and Assembly\nInternet site. The weekly committee  schedule  shall  be  available  the\npreceding Thursday, as provided for in subdivision b of this section. If\non  the  first  Tuesday of any month of the regular legislative session,\nexcluding January, a standing committee shall  have  50  or  more  bills\npending  committee  action,  such committee shall be required to meet at\nleast once during such month to consider legislation.\n  b. Each chairperson of a standing committee shall, by the Thursday  of\nthe  week  preceding,  furnish to the Speaker, the Majority and Minority\nLeaders, and make available to each member of such committee, a copy  of\nthe  agenda  of  all meetings scheduled for the following week, together\nwith a copy of the introducer's memorandum for each bill listed on  such\nagenda.  Further,  each  chairperson  shall  furnish to the Speaker, the\nMajority and Minority Leaders and to the ranking minority member of such\ncommittee, a list of all  bills  referred  to  such  committee  to  date\ntogether  with  the  above  agenda and memoranda. In addition, copies of\nsuch agenda shall be made available not  later  than  such  Thursday  to\nrepresentatives  of  the  news  media  and  to the general public by the\nfiling  thereof  with  the  Legislative  Library and the Assembly Public\nInformation Office.  The notice provisions of this  subdivision  and  of\nsubdivision  c  shall  not  apply  to  the  Committee  on Rules. Nothing\ncontained in this subdivision shall  be  deemed  to  waive  any  of  the\nprovisions  of  article  seven  of  the Public Officers Law known as the\n\"Open Meetings Law\".\n  c. The chairperson of a standing committee may call a special  meeting\nor  add  or  delete  items  on the agenda of a regular meeting by giving\ntwenty-four hour notice of the agenda of such special  meeting  or  such\nadditions  or  deletions  in  the  same manner and to the same extent as\nnotice of agenda for regular  meetings,  provided,  however,  that  such\nnotice shall not be required if a message of necessity has been received\nfrom the governor in connection with the bill under consideration or the\nranking minority member of the committee consents thereto.\n  d. All standing committee meetings shall be open to representatives of\nthe  news  media  and  general public, except that the committee, upon a\ntwo-thirds vote of the members  of  the  committee  present  or  upon  a\nmajority vote of the total membership of the committee, whichever is the\ngreater,  may  hold  an  executive session at which only members of such\ncommittee shall be in attendance. The subjects to be acted upon  at  the\nexecutive session shall be limited to the subjects enumerated in section\none hundred five of the Public Officers Law. No bill shall be voted upon\nat  such  executive  session. No committee shall vote to report any bill\nunless a majority of all the members thereof is  actually  present.  The\naffirmative  vote  of  a  majority  of  all  the  members appointed to a\nstanding committee shall be necessary to every report. The negative vote\nof such a majority shall be necessary to defeat a bill in committee.  No\nproxy vote shall be valid.\n  e.  At  the  conclusion  of a committee meeting the committee clerk of\nsuch committee shall deliver to the Office of Journal Operations a  roll\ncall  on  each of the bills considered by the committee and on each vote\nto hold an executive session indicating the attendance  of  the  members\nand the ayes and nays. Such roll call shall be reproduced not later than\n24  hours  after  transmittal to such Office and shall be made available\nfor inspection by the general public and  representatives  of  the  news\nmedia in the Assembly Public Information Office.\n  f. The report of a committee upon any matter referred to it other than\na  bill,  may  include a brief statement of the opinion of any member or\nmembers of the committee voting in either the majority or minority.","path":["Assembly Rules","Rule 4. Committees"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/CMA/R4S2","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:44Z","sha256":"4b9b6831e7d74b59ba4ff811c683d62b6131cccab8ce39f73825baec507591f2","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-assembly-rules-rule-4-1","next":"us-ny/n.y.-assembly-rules-rule-4-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}