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Senate Bill S8604

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Moves the date of the presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March

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2025-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-100, El L

2025-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Moves the date of the presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March, also known as Super Tuesday.

2025-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8604
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, GIANARIS, BAILEY, COMRIE, FAHY, FERNANDEZ,
   GOUNARDES, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS,
   RIVERA,  SANDERS,  SCARCELLA-SPANTON,  SEPULVEDA  --  read  twice  and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Rules

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of  the
   presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  8-100  of  the
 election law, as amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a)  A  primary  election  shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
 before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
 legislature.  Members  of  the  state and county committees and assembly
 district leaders and associate district  leaders  and  all  other  party
 positions  to  be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi-
 nations for public office required to be made at a primary  election  in
 such  year shall be made at such primary. In each year in which electors
 of president and vice president of the United States are to  be  elected
 an  additional  primary  election[,  to be known as the spring primary,]
 shall ALSO be held on the  first  Tuesday  in  [February]  MARCH  unless
 otherwise  changed  by  an  act  of  the legislature, for the purpose of
 electing delegates to the national convention.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13965-01-5

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