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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8260
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 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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