Assembly Bill A8970

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to timing for a candidate to decline a nomination

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8970 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-146, El L

2025-A8970 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person designated as a candidate for two or more party nominations 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 a nomination not later than the last day to certify the ballot or to determine the candidates and questions that shall appear on the ballot; relates to the timing for certain candidates to decline a designation or nomination under certain circumstances.

2025-A8970 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8970
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. YEGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the timing for a candi-
   date to decline a nomination
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 6 and the opening paragraph of subdivision 7 of
 section 6-146 of the election law, subdivision 6 as added by chapter 276
 of  the laws of 2021 and the opening paragraph of subdivision 7 as added
 by chapter 178 of the laws of 2022, are 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  days
 after  the primary election] THE LAST DAY TO CERTIFY THE BALLOT PURSUANT
 TO SECTION 4-112 OF THIS CHAPTER OR TO  DETERMINE  THE  CANDIDATES  DULY
 NOMINATED  FOR  PUBLIC OFFICE AND THE QUESTIONS THAT SHALL APPEAR ON THE
 BALLOT PURSUANT TO SECTION 4-114 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   A person designated as a candidate for nomination or for  party  posi-
 tion,  or  nominated  for  an  office,  may, in a certificate signed and
 acknowledged by such person and filed no later  than  the  last  day  to
 certify  the  ballot  pursuant to section 4-110 or section 4-112 of this
 chapter OR THE LAST DAY TO DETERMINE THE CANDIDATES DULY  NOMINATED  FOR
 PUBLIC OFFICE AND THE QUESTIONS THAT SHALL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT PURSUANT
 TO  SECTION 4-114 OF THIS CHAPTER, decline the designation or nomination
 under the following circumstances:
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13444-01-5

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