New York Rules|SECTION 3

                                                

§ 3. Debate. a. Debate shall only be in order when it  is  germane  to
the question under discussion.

b.  If  the  question in debate contains several points, a Senator may
have the same divided, provided  the  division  called  for  embodies  a
distinct principle or statement of fact.

c.  When  any bill, resolution or motion is under consideration and it
appears that no Senator desires  to  be  heard  further,  the  Presiding
Officer  shall  put  the  question: "Does any Senator desire to be heard
further?" If no Senator shall rise  to  debate,  the  Presiding  Officer
shall  declare  the debate closed; except that thereafter the Conference
Leaders may speak once, or may yield the floor to any  Senator  who  may
speak  once, and may be followed by the Temporary President who may also
speak once, or may yield the floor to any Senator who  may  speak  once.
The main question shall then be put immediately.

d.  Debate on motions or resolutions other than concurrent resolutions
shall be limited to one and one-half hours with one-half hour  allocated
to  each conference. Debate upon any bill or concurrent resolution shall
be limited to four hours, which shall include sufficient  time  for  all
Senators to explain their votes. No single Senator shall debate any bill
or  concurrent resolution for more than thirty minutes. When any bill or
concurrent resolution shall have been under consideration for two hours,
including all amendments thereto, it shall be in order for  any  Senator
to  move  to close debate, and the Presiding Officer shall recognize the
Senator who wishes to make such motion.  Such  motion  to  close  debate
shall not be amendable or debatable and shall be immediately put, and if
it  shall  receive  the  affirmative  vote of a majority of the Senators
present, the pending  measure  shall  take  precedence  over  all  other
business.

e.  The  vote  shall  thereupon be taken upon such bill, resolution or
motion with such amendments as may  be  pending  at  the  time  of  such
motion,  according  to  the  Rules  of  the  Senate, but without further
debate, except that upon the roll call the sponsor of a bill before  the
house  may  speak,  not to exceed five minutes, in explanation of his or
her  vote, and any Senator, including co-sponsors of the bill before the
house, may speak not to exceed two minutes in explanation of his or  her
vote. After such motion to close debate has been made by any Senator, no
other  motion shall be in order until such motion has been voted upon by
the Senate.

f. After the Senate shall have adopted the motion to close debate,  as
hereinbefore  provided,  no  motion  shall be in order but one motion to
adjourn or for a call of the Senate by the Temporary  President,  and  a
motion  to commit. Should said motion to adjourn be carried, the measure
under consideration shall be the pending question when the Senate  shall
again  convene,  and  shall be taken up at the point where it was at the
time of such adjournment. The motion to close debate may be ordered upon
a single motion, a series of motions allowable under the  rules,  or  an
amendment  or  amendments,  or  may  be  made  to embrace all authorized
motions or amendments, and include the bill, resolution or motion to its
passage or rejection. All incidental  questions  of  order,  or  motions
pending  at  the  time  such motion is made to close debate, whether the
same be on appeal or otherwise, shall be decided without debate.