STATE OF NEW YORK
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4727
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to eliminating the signa-
ture requirement for designating petitions for certain candidates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (c-1) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 6-136 of the election law, as amended by chapter 22 of the laws
3 of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the New York city charter provid-
5 ing for greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be filled
6 by all voters of the city of New York, two thousand two hundred fifty
7 signatures, provided however, there shall be no signature requirement
8 for a candidate who is receiving public matching funds pursuant to the
9 provisions of chapter seven of title three of the administrative code of
10 the city of New York;
11 (b) Notwithstanding any provision of the New York city charter provid-
12 ing for greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be filled
13 by all the voters of any county or borough within the city of New York,
14 one thousand two hundred signatures, provided however, there shall be no
15 signature requirement for a candidate who is receiving public matching
16 funds pursuant to the provisions of chapter seven of title three of the
17 administrative code of the city of New York;
18 (c) Notwithstanding any provision of the New York city charter provid-
19 ing for greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be filled
20 in the city of New York by all the voters of any municipal court
21 district, four hundred fifty signatures, provided however, there shall
22 be no signature requirement for a candidate who is receiving public
23 matching funds pursuant to the provisions of chapter seven of title
24 three of the administrative code of the city of New York;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c-1) Notwithstanding any provision of the New York city charter
2 providing for greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be
3 filled in the city of New York by all the voters of any city council
4 district, two hundred seventy signatures, provided however, there shall
5 be no signature requirement for a candidate who is receiving public
6 matching funds pursuant to the provisions of chapter seven of title
7 three of the administrative code of the city of New York;
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall not apply to any
9 special election that will occur in the city of New York for which
10 petitions are required to be filed before February 15, 2021, provided
11 however, that the amendments to subdivision 2 of section 6-136 of the
12 election law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expi-
13 ration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
