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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to the number of signa-
   tures needed on certain designating petitions  and  independent  nomi-
   nations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (k) and (l) of subdivision 2 of section 6-136 of
 the election law, as amended by chapter 79 of  the  laws  of  1992,  are
 amended and a new paragraph (m) is added to read as follows:
   (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 signatures[.];
 AND
   (M) FOR TOWN COUNCIL DISTRICTS, FIVE HUNDRED SIGNATURES  OR  FIVE  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 INACTIVE VOTERS),
 WHICHEVER IS LESS.
   § 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 2 of section 6-142 of  the  election
 law,  as amended by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended and a new
 paragraph (j) is added to read as follows:
   (i) for any office to be filled by the voters of any political  subdi-
 vision  contained  within another political subdivision except as herein
 otherwise provided, not to exceed the number of signatures required  for
 the larger subdivision[.]; AND
   (J)  FOR  TOWN  COUNCIL DISTRICTS, FIVE HUNDRED SIGNATURES OR FIVE PER
 CENTUM OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES CAST FOR GOVERNOR AT THE LAST GUBER-
 NATORIAL ELECTION IN SUCH UNIT, EXCLUDING BLANK AND VOID VOTES, WHICHEV-
 ER IS LESS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
              

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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