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Assembly Bill A7829

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Sets the timeline for candidate declination

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2025-A7829 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7962
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-146, El L

2025-A7829 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Sets the timeline for candidate declination from ten days to seven days.

2025-A7829 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7829
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to candidate declination
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 6-146  of  the  election  law,  as
 added by chapter 276 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  A  person  designated  as  a candidate for two or more party nomi-
 nations for an office to be filled at the time of a general election who
 is not nominated at a primary election by one or more such  parties  may
 decline the nomination of one or more parties not later than [ten] SEVEN
 days after the primary election IS CERTIFIED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11073-01-5

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