{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-assembly-rules-rule-4-6","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Assembly Rules Rule 4, § 6","heading":"Reports","body":"§ 6. Reports. a. A standing committee may report any bill, either with\nor without amendments, or it may report adversely to the same or it  may\nreport that a bill has been held for further action and/or study. Upon a\nfavorable  report  of  the  committee on an Assembly Bill amended by the\nSenate, the bill shall  appear  upon  the  Calendar  under  the  heading\n\"Assembly Bills amended by the Senate\".\n  b.  A  report  of  a  committee must contain the name of the committee\nmaking the same, the matter reported on, the name of the introducer  and\nif  a  bill  or  resolution, the number of such bill or resolution. Such\nreport shall state whether such matter was reported:\n  (1)  favorably,  with  or  without  amendments  or referred to another\ncommittee;\n  (2) for the consideration of the House;\n  (3) adversely;\n  (4) for concurring in Senate amendments;\n  (5) for repassing a Senate bill which has been recalled  and  amended;\nor\n  (6) held for further action and/or study.\n  c.   If   the  report  be  on  a  resolution,  petition,  memorial  or\nremonstrance it  must  contain  the  recommendations,  if  any,  of  the\ncommittee thereon.\n  d.  A  list  of  the bills reported under their final numbers shall be\nfiled by the clerks of the committees with  the  Speaker,  the  Majority\nLeader,  the  Minority  Leader, the Clerk of the Assembly, the Office of\nAssembly Revision and the Index Clerk. The Committee on Rules shall  not\nbe  required to file such lists with the Speaker, the Majority Leader or\nthe Minority Leader.\n  e. All bills, except budget appropriation bills, reported favorably or\nfor consideration, if  reported  with  amendments,  shall  be  reprinted\nimmediately, and all new matter proposed by the committee to be added or\ninserted  in  existing  law  shall  be  underscored and all matter to be\neliminated from existing law, shall  be  printed  in  its  proper  place\nenclosed  in  black-faced brackets.   Where a committee amends a bill by\neliminating proposed new matter, such new matter shall be omitted in the\nreprint of the bill.\n  f.  All  budget  appropriation  bills  reported   favorably   or   for\nconsideration,   if  reported  with  amendments,  shall  be  immediately\nreprinted, and  the  amendments  proposed  by  the  committee  shall  be\nunderscored  in  their  proper place except in cases where the committee\nrecommends eliminating certain words or figures,  in  which  cases  such\nwords or figures shall be printed enclosed in black-faced brackets.\n  g.  All bills favorably reported shall, if the report be agreed to, be\nplaced on the order of second reading, except that  any  bill  providing\nfor  a  state appropriation, or creating or increasing a charge (i) upon\nthe state or (ii) upon a local government shall, when favorably reported\nby any committee other than the Committee on Ways and Means, be referred\nto the Committee on Ways and Means. In the event  such  a  bill  is  not\nreferred  to  the  Committee  on Ways and Means, the chairperson of such\nCommittee may require such referral, subject  to  the  approval  of  the\nSpeaker.  Where  a  committee report is not agreed to, the bill shall be\nbefore the House for disposition.\n  h.  Any  bill,  the  subject  matter  of  which  is  also  within  the\njurisdiction  of  another  committee  of  the  House may, subject to the\napproval of the Speaker, be favorably reported and  referred  or  simply\nreferred to such other committee for review and recommendation only.\n  i.  Any  bill which is referred to a standing committee other than the\nCommittee on Codes and which:\n  (1) imposes or changes any fine, term of imprisonment,  forfeiture  of\nrights or other penal sanction; or\n  (2) relates to the procedure by which such fine, term of imprisonment,\nforfeiture  of  rights  or  other  penal sanction is imposed or changed,\nshall,  when  favorably  reported  by  the  committee  having   original\njurisdiction,  be  referred to the Committee on Codes for the purpose of\nhaving  such  Committee  review  and  consider  only  such  penalty   or\nprocedural  provisions  of  such bill and to thereafter favorably report\nsuch bill with amendments, if necessary, to such penalty  or  procedural\nprovisions.  In  the  event  that  such  a  bill  is not referred to the\nCommittee on Codes, the chairperson of such Committee may  require  such\nreferral, subject to the approval of the Speaker.\n  j.  Where a bill has been reported adversely, and such report shall be\nagreed to by the House, it shall be considered rejected. No  bill  shall\nbe  reported  adversely  by  any  committee  until  ten  days  after the\nreference of such bill to the committee and the  bill  shall  have  been\nprinted and been upon the desks of the members for ten days.\n  k.  No  bill  shall  be  reported  by  a committee, except in its last\namended form at the time of such report. Whenever a  bill  which  is  in\ncommittee  is amended, the clerk of such committee shall promptly return\nto the Office of Journal Operations the original copy of such bill.\n  l. Where a \"home rule\" request, or a certificate of  necessity  or  an\nemergency  message  from  the  Governor  is  required as provided in any\nsection of Article IX or Article XIII of the Constitution, such request,\ncertificate or  message  must  be  filed  with  the  Office  of  Journal\nOperations before such bill can be reported by a committee.\n  m.   Concurrent   resolutions   proposing   amendments  to  the  State\nConstitution shall be  initially  referred  to  the  standing  committee\nhaving  jurisdiction  over  the  subject  matter of the contents of such\nresolution. Such concurrent resolution shall, when favorably reported by\nsuch committee, be referred to the  Committee  on  Judiciary  for  final\nconsideration.  In  the  event that such a resolution is not referred to\nthe Committee on  Judiciary,  the  chairperson  of  such  Committee  may\nrequire such referral subject to the approval of the Speaker.\n  n. On and after the first legislative day in June, all bills favorably\nreported  by a standing committee which would otherwise be placed on the\norder of second reading shall be referred, in accordance with  paragraph\none  of  subdivision  b  of  section ten of Rule IV, to the Committee on\nRules.","path":["Assembly Rules","Rule 4. Committees"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/CMA/R4S6","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:44Z","sha256":"6ede20da822ecb33b8435a4939ac2c93ee9a1d9a045ef56f15f6adf5e99badd2","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-assembly-rules-rule-4-5","next":"us-ny/n.y.-assembly-rules-rule-4-7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}