PA Bill Number: HB2447
Title: In sales and use tax, further providing for exclusions from tax.
Description: In sales and use tax, further providing for exclusions from tax. ...
Last Action: Referred to Finance
Last Action Date: Apr 23, 2026
New York Lawmakers vote, then read, a bill :: 05/10/2014
"If you are going to vote in favor of a piece of legislation, make sure you read the bill first.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo addresses the audience during the NY Safe Act signing ceremony at City Hall in Rochester Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Cuomo signed into law on Tuesday legislation that tightens a ban on assault-style rifles, calls for background checks on ammunition purchases, outlaws large-capacity magazines and tries to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people deemed to be a threat. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Shawn Dowd)
That's the lesson GOP lawmakers in New York reportedly learned after they voted in favor of a proposed state budget that includes millions of dollars in funding for the state's hastily-passed gun control law known as the SAFE Act.
Hidden in the budget is a provision that permits the reappropriation of $28 million to fund a gun database and $3.2 million in new funding for SAFE Act "staff," the New York Post reports .
One GOP senator, who asked to remain anonymous, said lawmakers were "told there was no dining for it." He said he would've voted against it if he knew about the SAFE Act funding."
Legislators voting without reading the Bill? Preposterous, we think.
