STATE OF NEW YORK
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5057--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES, WALKER, DINOWITZ, CHANDLER-WATERMAN,
EICHENSTEIN, GIBBS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI, LAVINE, LEE, PAULIN, PHEF-
FER AMATO, RAGA, D. ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, SEAWRIGHT, SEPTIMO, SIMONE,
ZACCARO, RA, BRAUNSTEIN, KELLES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, STERN,
LEVENBERG, GLICK, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the dates to file a
designating petition; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6-158 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision one of this
4 section, for the year two thousand twenty-three, such designating peti-
5 tion required to be filed by such subdivision shall be filed not earlier
6 than the thirteenth Monday before, and not later than the twelfth Monday
7 preceding the primary election.
8 § 2. Section 6-134 of the election law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
10 4-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision four of this
11 section, for the year two thousand twenty-three, a signature made earli-
12 er than forty-one days before the last day to file designating petitions
13 for the primary election, or a signature made later than the twelfth
14 Thursday preceding the primary election, shall not be counted.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
16 31, 2023 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
17 repealed.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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