STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
6259
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 1, 2017
___________
Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to primary election dates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 17 of the laws of 2007, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) A primary election[, to be known as the fall primary,] shall be
5 held on the [first] third Tuesday [after the second Monday] in [Septem-
6 ber] June before every general election unless otherwise changed by an
7 act of the legislature. In each year in which electors of president and
8 vice president of the United States are to be elected an additional
9 primary election, to be known as the spring primary, shall be held on
10 the first Tuesday in February unless otherwise changed by an act of the
11 legislature, for the purpose of electing delegates to the national
12 convention, members of state and county committees and assembly district
13 leaders and associate assembly district leaders.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09458-01-7
