assembly Bill A2570

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the number of signatures for designating petitions in the year 2019

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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 20, 2019 signed chap.17
Feb 19, 2019 delivered to governor
Feb 12, 2019 returned to assembly
passed senate
3rd reading cal.103
substituted for s2862
Jan 28, 2019 referred to elections
delivered to senate
passed assembly
ordered to third reading rules cal.19
rules report cal.19
reported
reported referred to rules
Jan 23, 2019 referred to election law

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Feb 12, 2019 - floor Vote

A2570
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Floor Vote: Feb 12, 2019

aye (54)
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excused (3)

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A2570 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2862
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-136, El L

A2570 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the number of signatures for designating petitions for 2019; provides such shall be reduced by one-quarter, rounded down to the nearest whole number.

A2570 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 


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

                                  2570

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 23, 2019
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the  number  of  signa-
  tures for designating petitions in the year 2019

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

  Section 1. Section 6-136 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
  4. EXCEPT FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION TWO
OF THIS SECTION, FOR DESIGNATIONS MADE BY PETITION IN THE YEAR TWO THOU-
SAND  NINETEEN,  THE  SIGNATURE REQUIREMENT NUMBERS STATED IN PARAGRAPHS
(A) THROUGH (L) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE  REDUCED  BY
ONE-QUARTER, ROUNDED DOWN TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER.
  §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
31, 2019 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.
                                                           LBD08717-01-9