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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2018
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 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to permitting boards of
   elections to change the date of a primary election  if  such  election
   conflicts with a religious holiday
 
   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 Tuesday after the second Monday in September  before  every
 general  election  unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature
 OR UNLESS OTHERWISE CHANGED BY A BOARD OF ELECTIONS WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS
 OF SUCH ELECTION  IF  THE  ELECTION  DATE  CONFLICTS  WITH  A  RELIGIOUS
 HOLIDAY.  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 immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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