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A08205 Summary:

BILL NO	A08205
SAME AS	SAME AS S05462-A
SPONSOR	Niou
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd §6-158, El L
Relates to declining party nominations after primary elections; provides that a certificate to fill a vacancy by declination shall be filed not later than twenty days after such declination has been filed.

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A08205 Actions:

BILL NO	A08205
06/07/2019	referred to election law
01/08/2020	referred to election law

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A08205 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8205
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. NIOU -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to declining  party  nomi-
          nations after primary elections
 
          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 15 to read as follows:
     3    15.  (a)  A  person  who has been designated for nomination for public
     4  office by any party or parties and who thereafter does not  receive  one
     5  or  more  such nominations may decline any nomination or nominations for
     6  such office by filing a certificate of declination not  later  than  the
     7  fifteenth day after the primary election.
     8    (b)  A  certificate to fill  a vacancy by declination pursuant to this
     9  subdivision shall be filed not later than twenty days after such  decli-
    10  nation has been filed.
    11    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    12  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09178-04-9

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