Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|
---|---|
Jan 06, 2010 |
referred to governmental operations |
Mar 31, 2009 |
referred to governmental operations |
Assembly Bill A7372
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
BARRON
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly 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
Actions
2009-A7372 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A7372 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7372 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 31, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to extending the deadline for calling special elections to fill vacancies in the offices of state senator and member of assembly THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 42 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter 317 of the laws of 1954, is amended to read as follows: 4. A special election shall not be held to fill a vacancy in the office of a representative in congress unless such vacancy occurs on or before the first day of July of the last year of the term of office, or unless it occurs thereafter and a special session of congress is called to meet before the next general election, or be called after September nineteenth of such year; nor to fill a vacancy in the office of state senator or in the office of member of assembly, unless the vacancy occurs ON OR before the first day of [April] JUNE of the last year of the term of office, or unless the vacancy occurs in either such office of senator or member of assembly after such first day of [April] JUNE and a special session of the legislature be called to meet between such first day of [April] JUNE and the next general election or be called after September nineteenth in such year. If a special election to fill an office shall not be held as required by law, the [office] VACANCY shall be filled at the next general election. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10302-01-9
Comments
Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.
Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.
Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.