Senate Bill S8108

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to moving the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

  • 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-S8108 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10173
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S1819, A6623
2023-2024: S437, A1109

2019-S8108 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Moves the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020.

2019-S8108 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8108 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8108
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 23, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of  the
   presidential primary to June 23, 2020
 
   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 290 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 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
 presidential primary, shall be held on [April twenty-eight]  JUNE  TWEN-
 TY-THIRD,  two thousand twenty unless otherwise changed by an act of the
 legislature, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate  deleg-
 ates to the national convention.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, the
 amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of  section  8-100  of  the
 election  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expi-
 ration of such paragraph and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15917-01-0

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