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Assembly Bill A6259

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to primary election dates

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2017-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-100, El L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A3546

2017-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that primary elections take place on the third Tuesday in June.

2017-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6259
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to primary election dates
 
   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 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] THIRD Tuesday [after the second Monday] in  [Septem-
 ber]  JUNE  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.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09458-01-7

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