Senate Bill S3430

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the representation of newly formed political parties

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S3430 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2521
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7-116, 6-124, 2-104, 7-104, 6-104 & 9-214, El L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7480

2023-S3430 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the representation of newly formed political parties; relates to the placement of candidates of newly formed political parties on ballots, the representation of such parties within the state and the transmission of the official canvass of votes cast for presidential electors.

2023-S3430 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3430 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3430
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the  representation  of
   newly formed political parties
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  7-116  of  the  election  law  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. In printing the names of candidates on the ballot, the candidate or
 candidates  of  the party which polled [for its candidate for the office
 of governor at the last preceding election for such office] the  highest
 number of votes FOR ITS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OR FOR ITS SLATE OF PRES-
 IDENT  ELECTORS  AT THE MOST RECENT GENERAL ELECTION IN AN EVEN NUMBERED
 YEAR, shall be [row or] column A or one and the candidates of the  other
 parties  shall  be  placed  on  such  ballot in descending order of such
 votes.
   § 2. Section 6-124 of the election law, as amended by chapter  876  of
 the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   §  6-124.  Conventions; judicial. A judicial district convention shall
 be constituted by the election at the preceding primary of delegates and
 alternate delegates, if any, from  each  assembly  district  or,  if  an
 assembly  district shall contain all or part of two or more counties and
 if the rules of the party shall so provide, separately from the part  of
 such  assembly district contained within each such county. The number of
 delegates and alternates, if any, shall be determined  by  party  rules,
 but  the  number  of delegates shall be substantially in accordance with
 the ratio, which the number of votes cast for the  party  candidate  for
 the  office  of governor, on the line or column of the party at the last
 preceding election for such office, in any unit of representation, bears
 to the total vote cast at such election for such candidate on such  line
 or column in the entire state; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, FOR A NEW PARTY FORMED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06213-01-3
              

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