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A08205 Summary:
BILL NO | A08205 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S05462-A |
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SPONSOR | Niou |
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COSPNSR | |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §6-158, El L | |
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Relates to declining party nominations after primary elections; provides that a certificate to fill a vacancy by declination shall be filed not later than twenty days after such declination has been filed. |
A08205 Actions:
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06/07/2019 | referred to election law | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/08/2020 | referred to election law |
A08205 Committee Votes:
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Go to topA08205 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8205 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NIOU -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to declining party nomi- nations after primary elections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6-158 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 15 to read as follows: 3 15. (a) A person who has been designated for nomination for public 4 office by any party or parties and who thereafter does not receive one 5 or more such nominations may decline any nomination or nominations for 6 such office by filing a certificate of declination not later than the 7 fifteenth day after the primary election. 8 (b) A certificate to fill a vacancy by declination pursuant to this 9 subdivision shall be filed not later than twenty days after such decli- 10 nation has been filed. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09178-04-9