Prohibits a court from bifurcating the primary elections for members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party positions to be elected and all nominations for public office required to be made at a primary election in such year, except presidential primaries.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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944--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting a court
from bifurcating certain primary elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 8-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. (a) No court shall issue an order changing the date of a primary
4 election which bifurcates the offices and positions to be elected and
5 nominations to be made as part of the same primary election pursuant to
6 paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section.
7 (b) The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any presi-
8 dential primary.
9 § 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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