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Senate Bill S8007

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Broadens the definition of "party" to mean organizations that polled at least fifty thousand votes for its candidates for statewide office

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2009-S8007 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
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2009-S8007 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Broadens the definition of "party" to mean organizations that polled at least fifty thousand votes for its candidates for statewide office.

2009-S8007 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8007 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8007

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 28, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- 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  definition  of
  "party"

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section  1-104  of  the  election  law  is
amended to read as follows:
  3. The term "party" means any political organization which at the last
preceding election for governor polled at least fifty thousand votes for
ANY OF its [candidate] CANDIDATES for [governor] STATEWIDE OFFICE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.








 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17574-01-0

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