STATE OF NEW YORK
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1375--B
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 29, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, ADDABBO, HUNTLEY, KRUEGER -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Elections -- recommitted to the Committee on Elections in accord-
ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the number of signa-
tures on nominating petitions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 6-142 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (e) for any office to be filled by all the voters of any congressional
5 district, [three thousand five hundred] two thousand;
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
7 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.
LBD04883-06-0
