New York State Assembly Program and Counsel Staff Assembly Bill Files

Alphabetical by committee, then chronological by year, then numeric by bill number.

One of the functions of the Assembly Program and Counsel Staff is to analyze bills referred to Assembly standing committees. The staff does not analyze every bill, but specifically those bills considered significant by the sponsor and/or the Assembly leadership.

This series contains approximately 3,000 bill files representing six Assembly standing committees: Aging, Child Care, Education, Environmental Conservation, Health, and Social Services. The bill files normally contain a copy of the printed bill and a memorandum summarizing the bill. The memorandum can take the form of either a Committee Bill Memoranda (prepared by the Program and Counsel Staff) or a Memorandum in Support of Legislation (prepared by the bill's sponsor). Occasionally both types of memoranda are included in the same file.

The Committee Bill Memoranda contains the following information: standing committee name; bill number; sponsor; Senate companion bill; origin of bill; sections of law affected; subject and purpose; summary and description of provisions; effective date; legislative history; arguments in support; arguments in opposition; technical deficiences and fiscal implications.

The Memorandum in Support of Legislation contains the following: title of bill; subject and purpose; summary of provisions; statement of support; prior legislative history; fiscal implications; effective date; and name of sponsor.

A small number of the files also contain background material relating to a bill including reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence in support or opposition of a bill from organizations, state and local government agencies, and individuals.

L0007-94: This accretion contains approximately 450 bill files representing Assembly standing committees on Commerce, Industry, and Economic Development; Banks; and Small Business. Also included is a small amount of background material consisting of copies of annual reports of the Urban Development Corporation for the years 1990-1992 and minutes of the meetings of the directors of the Urban Development Corporation for November and December 1992.

L0007-94A: This accretion consists entirely of memoranda in support of legislation. They were submitted in accordance with assembly rules on original drafts or amended bills. No printed copies of bills are present.

L0007-94B: This accretion consists of bill files from the following standing committees: Aging, Agriculture, Children & Families, health, Mental Health, and Social Services.

L0007-95: This accretion consists of bill files, primarily from the Committee on Aging, and also correspondence, memoranda, reports, background material, witness lists, and testimony relating to public hearings held by Assembly committees. Records pertain to the following committees: Aging (bills 1983-1984; 1989-1990); Agriculture (milk licensing); Alcoholism (office mergers, prevention); Banks (credit cards, mortgage loans, consumer affairs); Environmental Conservation (water supply management, coastal zones and hazards, toxic air, lawn care pesticides); Governmental Operations (consumer product tampering, elderly crime victims, stabilization of middle income families); and Social Services (Assembly Task Force on Homelessness, reports on Medicaid programs in other states, welfare reform).

L0007-96: This accretion contains bill files from the following five Assembly standing committees: Aging, Commerce, Education, Health, and Mental Health. Some memoranda, meeting schedules, tentative agendas, resolutions, and other meeting materials are present for some committees.

L0007-97: This accretion consists of bill files of the following assembly standing committees: Banks, Commerce, Tourism, and Economic Development.

L0007-99: This accretion consists of bill files for the assembly standing committees on Aging (1995-1996) and Social Services (1991-1992).There are no files for the period 1993-1994.

L0007-00: This accretion consists primarily of bill files of the assembly standing committee on Governmental Employees for the years 1993-1997. The files contain both memoranda in support of and in opposition to the bills. Also included in the accretion are bill files for the assembly standing committee on Agriculture for the years 1992-1993.

L0127Series L0127, Assembly Standing Committee Agenda and Bill Files, and

L0128Series L0128, Senate Standing Committee Agenda and Bill files, contain related records.

L0007-94B: This accretion was transferred to the State Archives in 1994. The records were accessioned in conjunction with a facility renovation project undertaken in 2002.

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