Assembly Actions -
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Mar 02, 2018 |
signed chap.3 |
Feb 20, 2018 |
delivered to governor |
Feb 13, 2018 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.487 substituted for s7597 |
Feb 05, 2018 |
referred to rules delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 29, 2018 |
amended on third reading (t) 8917a |
Jan 17, 2018 |
ordered to third reading rules cal.1 rules report cal.1 |
Jan 16, 2018 |
reported reported referred to rules |
Jan 08, 2018 |
referred to election law |
Assembly Bill A8917
Signed By Governor2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CARROLL
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Anthony D'Urso
Daniel Rosenthal
David Buchwald
Stacey Pheffer Amato
2017-A8917 - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S6955
- Law Section:
- Elections
2017-A8917 - Summary
Requires that a primary will not be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September; any written communication to voters by mail shall contain a conspicuous notice in all capital letters and bold font notifying the voter of the primary date change; moves the date of the 2018 fall primary to Thursday, September 13.
2017-A8917 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8917 I N A S S E M B L Y January 8, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to require the 2018 fall primary be held on Thursday, September 13, 2018 and the political calendar be adjusted accordingly; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivi- sion 1 of section 8-100 of the election law, the 2018 fall primary shall be held on Thursday, September 13, 2018, and the political calendar shall be adjusted accordingly. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire on Decem- ber 31, 2018 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14137-01-8
co-Sponsors
Anthony D'Urso
Daniel Rosenthal
David Buchwald
Stacey Pheffer Amato
2017-A8917A (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S6955
- Law Section:
- Elections
2017-A8917A (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires that a primary will not be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September; any written communication to voters by mail shall contain a conspicuous notice in all capital letters and bold font notifying the voter of the primary date change; moves the date of the 2018 fall primary to Thursday, September 13.
2017-A8917A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8917--A R. R. 1 I N A S S E M B L Y January 8, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, D'URSO, D. ROSENTHAL, BUCHWALD, PHEFFER AMATO, ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- amended on the special order of third reading, ordered reprinted as amended, retaining its place on the special order of third reading AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to communications to voters by mail; to require the 2018 fall primary be held on Thursday, September 13, 2018 and the political calendar be adjusted accordingly; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivi- sion 1 of section 8-100 of the election law, the 2018 fall primary shall be held on Thursday, September 13, 2018, and the political calendar shall be adjusted accordingly. § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 4-117 of the election law, as amended by chapter 44 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 1. The board of elections, between August first and August fifth of each year, shall send by mail on which is endorsed such language desig- nated by the state board of elections to ensure postal authorities do not forward such mail but return it to the board of elections with forwarding information, when it cannot be delivered as addressed and which contains a request that any such mail received for persons not residing at the address be dropped back in the mail, a communication, in a form approved by the state board of elections, to every registered voter who has been registered without a change of address since the beginning of such year, except that the board of elections shall not be required to send such communications to voters in inactive status. The communication shall notify the voter of the days and hours of the ensu- ing primary and general elections, the place where he appears by his registration records to be entitled to vote, the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved from the address where they were last registered must re-register or, that if such move was to another address
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