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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

S 3448: Requires appointees of the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly to be included in all legislatively enacted workgroups, task forces, commissions, and committees

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 3448 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on January 27, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Requires appointees of the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly to be included in all legislatively enacted workgroups, task forces, commissions, and committees. Primary sponsor: Pam Helming (Republican/Conservative). It lists 9 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO FINANCE.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Requires proportionally equivalent appointees of both the majority and minority houses of the legislature in all legislatively enacted workgroups, task forces, commissions, councils, advisory boards, committees and any other legislatively enacted and appointed groups or workgroups; requires that the number of appointees by the legislature shall be proportionally equivalent to the number of appointees by the governor.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1 · Republican/Conservative 7 · Republican/Conservative/Independence 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Pam HelmingPrimary sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate54
George BorrelloCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate57
Patrick GallivanCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate60
Mario MatteraCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate2
Peter OberackerCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate51
Rob OrttCo-sponsorRepublican/Conservative/IndependenceSenate62
Tony PalumboCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate1
Dan StecCo-sponsorRepublican/Conservative/IndependenceSenate45
Jim TediscoCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate44
Alexis WeikCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeSenate8

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO FINANCE
  2. REFERRED TO FINANCE

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source