New York State Assembly Public Information Office Transcripts of Assembly Debates

Chronological by date of proceeding.

This series consists of verbatim transcripts of debates in the Assembly legislative sessions. The records are typescript copies from notes taken by the Assembly Stenographer and are contained in looseleaf binders. The debates contain the names of speakers and a complete record of what was said on the floor of the Assembly.

Stenographic notes of Assembly debates have been taken since 1872 (Assembly Rule #70), but were not made available to the public until 1972. Transcripts of these debates, furthermore, were not available until 1974 when a change in the rule provided that daily records shall be made available "at a place designated by the Speaker within ten days following the date upon which the proceedings took place." Transcripts are available at the Assembly Public Information Office.

Transcripts of Assembly debates, 1973-present, are available from the New York State Assembly's Public Information Office.

L0016-86: Box 22 contains an index to the debates arranged by date of proceedings. The index contains the following information: volume number, date, number of bill or resolution discussed, subject of bill or resolution, speaker, and pages containing the discussion.

L0016-88: Index in Box 1

L0016-04: Photocopy of index, 1974-1979, arranged by date of proceedings.

Container list for each accretion is available at the repository.

L0016-04: This accession resulted from a project by State Archives staff in 2004 to identify, describe, and accession previously unaccessioned indexes.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.