I'm a little confused about what's going on here. I looked up the legislative process in NY to find out what provisions NY state has for passing bills into law, and according the NY Senate website, the governor has 10 days to veto a law, after which it automatically becomes law even if she doesn't sign it. If the legislature is out of session when she gets the bill, she then has 30 days to sign it or it is automatically vetoed.
Either way, after 7 months, she shouldn't be still sitting on this bill. It should have either automatically become law or have been vetoed, depending on circumstance.
And if it did pass with that big of a majority, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a veto override, which only takes a 2/3 majority vote of the full legislature.
I was confused by the same thing for a long time—everything I read seemed to say that once the legislature is out of session, the waiting period should be over within 30 days.
But a staffer for the governor explained to me: The 10 days to veto / 30 days to sign window only begins after she's called the bill to her desk. There's a weird limbo space between the legislature and the governor's office; if she doesn't call up a bill, it dies at the end of the year.
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Robert C.
I'm a little confused about what's going on here. I looked up the legislative process in NY to find out what provisions NY state has for passing bills into law, and according the NY Senate website, the governor has 10 days to veto a law, after which it automatically becomes law even if she doesn't sign it. If the legislature is out of session when she gets the bill, she then has 30 days to sign it or it is automatically vetoed.
Either way, after 7 months, she shouldn't be still sitting on this bill. It should have either automatically become law or have been vetoed, depending on circumstance.
And if it did pass with that big of a majority, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a veto override, which only takes a 2/3 majority vote of the full legislature.
I was confused by the same thing for a long time—everything I read seemed to say that once the legislature is out of session, the waiting period should be over within 30 days.
But a staffer for the governor explained to me: The 10 days to veto / 30 days to sign window only begins after she's called the bill to her desk. There's a weird limbo space between the legislature and the governor's office; if she doesn't call up a bill, it dies at the end of the year.
Over 1k bills passed the NY legislature this year, and the governor waited until after the election to call up over 400 of them. Here's a NY Post article about it: https://nypost.com/2022/11/03/hochul-delays-action-on-420-ho...