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Assembly Bill A9338

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the filing of a declination to a designation or nomination

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2025-A9338 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2025-A9338 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person who did not receive the nomination of a party in a caucus, may file a certificate of declination to a designation or nomination with respect to that office which the person had filed a designating petition of another party or had received the nomination after a primary or to a nomination of another party decided at a caucus within ten days after the certificate of nomination made pursuant to the caucus which the person had lost is filed.

2025-A9338 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9338
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to filing a declination to
   a designation or nomination
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section 6-146  of
 the  election law is designated paragraph (a) and a new paragraph (b) is
 added to read as follows:
   (B) A PERSON HAVING NOT RECEIVED THE NOMINATION OF A PARTY  WHICH  WAS
 DECIDED  IN  A CAUCUS, MAY FILE A CERTIFICATE OF DECLINATION TO A DESIG-
 NATION OR NOMINATION, AS THE CASE MAY BE, WITH RESPECT  TO  THAT  OFFICE
 WHICH  THE  PERSON  HAD FILED A DESIGNATING PETITION OF ANOTHER PARTY OR
 HAD RECEIVED THE NOMINATION AFTER A PRIMARY OR TO A NOMINATION OF ANOTH-
 ER PARTY DECIDED AT A CAUCUS WITHIN TEN DAYS AFTER  THE  CERTIFICATE  OF
 NOMINATION  MADE  PURSUANT  TO  THE  CAUCUS WHICH THE PERSON HAD LOST IS
 FILED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13989-04-5

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