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Scope and Content Note

This series contains a record of the introduction and subsequent progress of every bill introduced in the assembly during a legislative session.

The volumes contain the following information for each bill: date of introduction; by whom introduced; numbers: introductory, printers, Senate reprint number of Assembly bill; title; first reference (name of committee); second reading; when ordered to second reading; third reading; when ordered to third reading; rules report date; amend and recommit (date); amend on 2nd reading or 3rd reading (date); when passed, delivered to Senate; when returned from Senate amended; Senate amendments concurred; when returned from Senate; dates sent to City Clerk and returned by Mayor (1911-1923 only); Delivered to Governor: when, when returned to Governor; stricken Senate bill substituted reception number; chapter number; and remarks (e.g., died in Assembly, returned from Senate dead, passed and became Chapter [number filled in]).

This series is the primary record of the progress of each bill introduced in the Assembly. While most of the information appears in the New York Legislative Record and Index and other information appears in the Assembly Journal, the series contains the most complete information.