S07962 Summary:
| BILL NO | S07962 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A07829 |
| SPONSOR | GONZALEZ |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §6-146, El L | |
| Sets the timeline for candidate declination from ten days to seven days. | |
S07962 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7962 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GONZALEZ -- 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 candidate declination The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 6-146 of the election law, as 2 added by chapter 276 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 3 6. A person designated as a candidate for two or more party nomi- 4 nations for an office to be filled at the time of a general election who 5 is not nominated at a primary election by one or more such parties may 6 decline the nomination of one or more parties not later than [ten] seven 7 days after the primary election is certified. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11073-01-5