Senate Bill S6374

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2020

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8176
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§8-100 & 6-158, add §§2-122-a & 2-122-b, El L

2019-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2020; establishes the "Presidential" primary date as April 28, 2020.

2019-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6374 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6374
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 6, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the conducting  of  the
   presidential  primary,  to  provide for the election of delegates to a
   national party convention or a national party conference in 2020,  and
   the  "Presidential"  and  "June"  primary  in  such year; to amend the
   election law, in relation to electing delegates to  a  national  party
   convention; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expi-
   ration thereof
 
   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 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a)  A  primary  election  shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
 before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
 legislature.    Members  of the state and county committees and assembly
 district leaders and associate district  leaders  and  all  other  party
 positions  to  be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi-
 nations for public office required to be made at a primary  election  in
 such year shall be made at such primary. In [each] THE year TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY  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]  PRESIDENTIAL primary, shall be held on [the first Tuesday
 in February] APRIL TWENTY-EIGHT, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY  unless  otherwise
 changed by an act of the legislature, for the purpose of electing deleg-
 ates AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES to the national convention.
   §  2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of the election law,
 a rule or resolution of a state committee providing for the selection of
 delegates and alternate delegates to  a  national  party  convention  or
 national  party  conference in the year 2020 shall select either section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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