S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1044--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted
to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the days of voting for
the primary and general elections
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
election law, as amended by chapter 87 of the laws of 2015, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A primary election, to be known as the fall primary, shall be held
on the first [Tuesday] SATURDAY AND SUNDAY after the second [Monday]
FRIDAY in September before every general election unless otherwise
changed by an act of the legislature. Members of state and county
committees and assembly district leaders and associate assembly district
leaders and all other party positions to be elected shall be elected at
the fall primary and all nominations for state and local public office
required to be made at a primary election in such year shall be made at
the fall primary. In the year two thousand sixteen in which electors of
president and vice president of the United States are to be elected, an
additional primary election, to be known as the presidential primary,
shall be held on April nineteenth, two thousand sixteen, unless other-
wise changed by an act of the legislature, for the purpose of electing
delegates and alternate delegates to the national convention.
S 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the election
law, as amended by chapter 17 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) A primary election, to be known as the fall primary, shall be held
on the first [Tuesday] SATURDAY AND SUNDAY after the second [Monday]
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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FRIDAY in September before every general election unless otherwise
changed by an act of the legislature. In each year in which electors of
president and vice president of the United States are to be elected an
additional primary election, to be known as the spring primary, shall be
held on the first Tuesday in February unless otherwise changed by an act
of the legislature, for the purpose of electing delegates to the
national convention, members of state and county committees and assembly
district leaders and associate assembly district leaders.
S 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the election
law, as relettered by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) The general election shall be held annually on the [Tuesday]
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY next succeeding the first [Monday] FRIDAY in Novem-
ber.
S 4. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
ments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the election
law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration
and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 13 of chapter 87 of
the laws of 2015, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of
section two of this act shall take effect.