Provides for the declination of a designation as a candidate or nomination for a party position if the person designated or nominated has received a diagnosis of a serious health condition or has resigned the office for which they are nominated or designated to run for re-election.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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559--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, COLTON, WOERNER,
SIMON, SEPTIMO, GALLAGHER, BURDICK, KELLES, SAYEGH -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Election Law -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to providing for the
declination of a designation as a candidate or nomination for a party
position under special circumstances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 7 of section 6-146 of the
2 election law, as added by chapter 178 of the laws of 2022, is amended
3 and two new paragraphs (d) and (e) are added to read as follows:
4 (c) where the person so nominated or designated has been convicted of
5 one or more misdemeanors or felonies under state or federal law at any
6 time after such person's designation or nomination[.]; or
7 (d) where the person so nominated or designated has received a diagno-
8 sis of a serious health condition at any time after such person's desig-
9 nation or nomination; or
10 (e) where the person so nominated or designated has resigned the
11 office for which they are nominated or designated to run for re-elec-
12 tion, for any reason, at any time after such person's designation or
13 nomination.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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