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Jan 13, 2023 | referred to election law |
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A1109 (ACTIVE) - Details
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1109 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02190-01-3