Assembly Bill A3135

                            
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                                  3135

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 23, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. BRADLEY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Election Law

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requirements for becom-
  ing a committee member of a political party

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 2-104 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 659 of the laws  of  1994,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  The  county  committee  of  each party shall be constituted by the
election in each election district within such county of  at  least  two
members  and  of  such  additional members, not in excess of two, as the
rules of the county committee of the party  within  the  county  or  the
statement  filed  pursuant hereto may provide for such district, propor-
tional to the party vote in  the  district  for  governor  at  the  last
preceding  gubernatorial  election,  or  in  case the boundaries of such
district have been changed or a new district has been created since  the
last  preceding  gubernatorial  election, proportional to the party vote
cast for member of assembly or in the event there was  no  election  for
member  of  assembly, then proportional to the number of enrolled voters
of such party in such district on  the  list  of  enrolled  voters  last
published  by  the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters in inactive
status. In a county in which no additional members are provided  for  by
the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
the  voting  power  of  each member shall be in proportion to such party
vote or, if the election  district  which  such  member  represents  was
created  or  changed  since  the  last  election for member of assembly,
proportional to such party enrollment. In a county in  which  additional
members  are  so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
ment in election districts within such county, each  member  shall  have
one  vote.  Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03347-01-9
              

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of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
or in the assembly district containing the election  district  in  which
such  member  is elected except; THAT IF A PERSON LIVES IN A CITY WITH A
POPULATION OF LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND, THEN SUCH PERSON NEED ONLY
BE  AN  ENROLLED VOTER OF THE PARTY RESIDING IN THE CITY, AND NOT NECES-
SARILY IN THE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, IN WHICH SUCH MEMBER IS TO BE  ELECTED;
AND  EXCEPT FURTHER that a member of a county committee who, as a result
of an alteration of assembly district lines, no  longer  resides  within
such assembly district may continue to serve for the balance of the term
to which he was elected.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
member elected after such effective date.