Assembly Bill A6623

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries

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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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2021-A6623 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1819
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10173, S8108
2023-2024: A1109, S437

2021-A6623 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries.

2021-A6623 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6623
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of the
   presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries
 
   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 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  ALSO  be  held  on  the [first] FOURTH Tuesday in [February] JUNE
 unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature, for  the  purpose
 of electing delegates to the national convention.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as the reversion of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of  section
 8-100 of the election law as provided in section 8 of chapter 290 of the
 laws of 2019, as amended.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05633-01-1

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