Assembly Bill A1207

                             
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                                   1207
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to the calculation of
   voting power for committee members in districts that have  changed  or
   new districts
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104  of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  260  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The county committee of each party  shall  be  constituted  by  the
 election  in  each  election district within such county of at least two
 members and of such additional  members  as  the  rules  of  the  county
 committee of the party within the county or the statement filed pursuant
 hereto  may provide for such district, proportional to the party vote in
 the district for governor at the last preceding gubernatorial  election,
 or  in  case  the boundaries of such district have been changed or a new
 district  has  been  created  since  the  last  preceding  gubernatorial
 election, proportional to the party vote [cast for member of assembly or
 in  the event there was no election for member of assembly, then propor-
 tional to the number of enrolled voters of such party in  such  district
 on the list of enrolled voters last published by the board of elections]
 IN  THE  DISTRICT  FOR  GOVERNOR  AT  THE  LAST  PRECEDING GUBERNATORIAL
 ELECTION MULTIPLIED BY THE PERCENTAGE  OF  REGISTERED  VOTERS  FROM  THE
 FORMER  ELECTION  DISTRICT  THAT  ARE  CONTAINED  IN  THE  NEW  ELECTION
 DISTRICT, excluding voters in inactive status. In a county in  which  no
 additional members are provided for by the rules of the county committee
 or  the  statement filed pursuant hereto the voting power of each member
 shall be in proportion to such party vote or, if the  election  district
 which  such  member  represents  was  created  or changed since the last
 PRECEDING GUBERNATORIAL election [for member of assembly],  proportional
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03765-01-5
              

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 to  [such  party enrollment] THE PARTY VOTE IN THE DISTRICT FOR GOVERNOR
 AT THE LAST PRECEDING GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION MULTIPLIED BY THE  PERCENT-
 AGE  OF  REGISTERED  VOTERS  FROM  THE FORMER ELECTION DISTRICT THAT ARE
 CONTAINED  IN THE NEW ELECTION DISTRICT. In a county in which additional
 members are so provided for, on the basis of the party vote  or  enroll-
 ment  in  election  districts within such county, each member shall have
 one vote. Each member of a county committee shall be an  enrolled  voter
 of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
 or  in  the  assembly district containing the election district in which
 such member is elected except that a member of a county  committee  who,
 as  a  result  of  an  alteration  of assembly district lines, no longer
 resides within such assembly district may  continue  to  serve  for  the
 balance of the term to which he was elected.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.