Research

Scope and Content Note

This series provides easy access to a record of the bills introduced by each member. These books contain 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 recalled, 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 listed]).

The series is valuable as a record of the number and subjects of bills introduced by each member and of how successful each member was in getting bills enacted into law.