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                                   2733
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 23, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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 reducing the numbers of
   signatures for designating petitions; and providing for the repeal  of
   such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6-136  of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  79  of  the laws of 1992, the opening paragraph as
 amended by chapter 659 of the  laws  of  1994  and  paragraph  (c-1)  as
 amended  by  chapter  418  of  the  laws  of 1993, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. All other petitions must be signed by not less than [five] ONE  AND
 ONE-HALF  per  centum, as determined by the preceding enrollment, of the
 then enrolled voters of the party residing within the political unit  in
 which  the  office  or  position is to be voted for (excluding voters in
 inactive status), provided,  however,  that  for  the  following  public
 offices the number of signatures need not exceed the following limits:
   (a)  [For]  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THE NEW YORK CITY CHARTER
 PROVIDING FOR GREATER THRESHOLDS TO THE CONTRARY, FOR any office  to  be
 filled  by  all  voters  of  the  city of New York, [seven thousand five
 hundred] TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY signatures;
   (b) [For] NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THE NEW YORK  CITY  CHARTER
 PROVIDING  FOR  GREATER THRESHOLDS TO THE CONTRARY, FOR any office to be
 filled by all the voters of any county or borough within the city of New
 York, [four thousand] ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED signatures;
   (c) [For] NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THE NEW YORK  CITY  CHARTER
 PROVIDING  FOR  GREATER THRESHOLDS TO THE CONTRARY, FOR any office to be
 filled in the city of New York by all the voters of any municipal  court
 district, [one thousand five hundred] FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY signatures;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (c-1) [For] NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THE NEW YORK CITY CHARTER
 PROVIDING  FOR  GREATER THRESHOLDS TO THE CONTRARY, FOR any office to be
 filled in the city of New York by all the voters  of  any  city  council
 district, [nine hundred] TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY signatures;
   (d)  For  any office to be filled by all the voters of cities or coun-
 ties, except the city of New York and counties therein, containing  more
 than  two  hundred  fifty  thousand  inhabitants  according  to the last
 preceding federal enumeration, [two thousand] SIX HUNDRED signatures;
   (e) For any office to be filled by all the voters of cities  or  coun-
 ties  containing  more  than  twenty-five thousand and not more than two
 hundred fifty thousand inhabitants,  according  to  the  last  preceding
 federal enumeration, [one thousand] THREE HUNDRED signatures;
   (f) For any office to be filled by all the voters of any other city or
 county, or of a councilmanic district in any city other than the city of
 New York, [five hundred] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY signatures;
   (g) For any office to be filled by all the voters of any congressional
 district, [twelve hundred fifty] THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE signatures;
   (h) For any office to be filled by all the voters of any state senato-
 rial district, [one thousand] THREE HUNDRED signatures;
   (i)  For  any  office  to  be  filled  by  all  voters of any assembly
 district, [five hundred] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY signatures;
   (j) For any office to be filled by all the  voters  of  any  political
 subdivision,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  contained within
 another political subdivision, not to exceed the  number  of  signatures
 required for the larger subdivision;
   (k)  For  any  other  office to be filled by the voters of a political
 subdivision containing more than one assembly district, county or  other
 political  subdivision,  not  to  exceed the aggregate of the signatures
 required for the subdivisions or parts of subdivisions so contained; and
   (l) For any county legislative district, [five  hundred]  ONE  HUNDRED
 FIFTY signatures.
   §  2.   Notwithstanding subdivision 4 of section 6-134 of the election
 law, the first day to sign a designating  petition  shall  be  March  2,
 2021.
   §  3.   Notwithstanding subdivision 1 of section 6-158 of the election
 law, a designating petition for the June 2021 primary election shall  be
 filed  with the appropriate board of elections on March 22 through March
 25, 2021 and the political calendar with respect to objections,  accept-
 ances,  authorizations,  declinations, substitutions and the last day to
 commence an election law article 16 proceeding shall be adjusted accord-
 ingly.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall not apply to any
 special election that will occur in the  city  of  New  York  for  which
 petitions  are  required  to be filed before February 15, 2021 and shall
 expire December 31, 2021, when upon such date the provisions of this act
 shall be deemed repealed.