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Assembly Bill A9524

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Makes technical changes to provisions of law dealing with primary elections

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2011-A9524 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11, Chap 147 of 2011; amd §§6-158 & 8-100, El L; amd §23, Chap of 2012 (as proposed in A. 9271-A)

2011-A9524 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes technical changes to provisions of law dealing with primary elections.

2011-A9524 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9524

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 9, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. SILVER, CUSICK -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Election Law

AN ACT to amend chapter 147 of the laws of 2011  amending  the  election
  law  relating  to  the  conducting  of  the  presidential  primary, in
  relation to th effectiveness thereof; to amend the  election  law,  in
  relation  to  date of primary elections; and to amend a chapter of the
  laws of 2012 amending the election law relating to primary  elections,
  as  proposed  in legislative bill number A. 9271-A, in relation to the
  effectiveness thereof

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

  Section  1. Section 11 of chapter 147 of the laws of 2011 amending the
election law relating to the conducting of the presidential primary,  is
amended to read as follows:
  S  11. This act shall take effect immediately; except that if this act
shall become a law after July 1, 2011, it shall take effect  immediately
and  shall  be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after
July 1, 2011; and, EXCEPT FOR SECTIONS SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT,  AND  NINE  OF
THIS  ACT  shall  expire  December  31,  2012  when  upon  such date the
provisions of this act, EXCEPT FOR SECTIONS SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, AND  NINE
OF THIS ACT, shall be deemed repealed.
  S  2.  Subdivisions  1  and 4 of section 6-158 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 434 of the laws of  1984,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  A designating petition shall be filed not earlier than the [tenth]
THIRTEENTH Monday before, and not later than the [ninth] TWELFTH  Thurs-
day preceding the primary election.
  4. A petition of enrolled members of a party requesting an opportunity
to write in the name of an undesignated candidate for a public office or
party  position  at a primary election shall be filed not later than the
[eighth] ELEVENTH Thursday  preceding  the  primary  election.  However,
where a designating petition has been filed and the person named therein
has  declined such designation and another person has been designated to
fill the vacancy, then in that event, a petition for an  opportunity  to

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

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