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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2733
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 23, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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 reducing the numbers of
          signatures for designating petitions; and providing for the repeal  of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6-136  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  79  of  the laws of 1992, the opening paragraph as
     3  amended by chapter 659 of the  laws  of  1994  and  paragraph  (c-1)  as
     4  amended  by  chapter  418  of  the  laws  of 1993, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    2. All other petitions must be signed by not less than [five] one  and
     7  one-half  per  centum, as determined by the preceding enrollment, of the
     8  then enrolled voters of the party residing within the political unit  in
     9  which  the  office  or  position is to be voted for (excluding voters in
    10  inactive status), provided,  however,  that  for  the  following  public
    11  offices the number of signatures need not exceed the following limits:
    12    (a)  [For]  Notwithstanding any provision of the New York city charter
    13  providing for greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office  to  be
    14  filled  by  all  voters  of  the  city of New York, [seven thousand five
    15  hundred] two thousand two hundred fifty signatures;
    16    (b) [For] Notwithstanding any provision of the New York  city  charter
    17  providing  for  greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be
    18  filled by all the voters of any county or borough within the city of New
    19  York, [four thousand] one thousand two hundred signatures;
    20    (c) [For] Notwithstanding any provision of the New York  city  charter
    21  providing  for  greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be
    22  filled in the city of New York by all the voters of any municipal  court
    23  district, [one thousand five hundred] four hundred fifty signatures;
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08838-05-1
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     1    (c-1) [For] Notwithstanding any provision of the New York city charter
     2  providing  for  greater thresholds to the contrary, for any office to be
     3  filled in the city of New York by all the voters  of  any  city  council
     4  district, [nine hundred] two hundred seventy signatures;
     5    (d)  For  any office to be filled by all the voters of cities or coun-
     6  ties, except the city of New York and counties therein, containing  more
     7  than  two  hundred  fifty  thousand  inhabitants  according  to the last
     8  preceding federal enumeration, [two thousand] six hundred signatures;
     9    (e) For any office to be filled by all the voters of cities  or  coun-
    10  ties  containing  more  than  twenty-five thousand and not more than two
    11  hundred fifty thousand inhabitants,  according  to  the  last  preceding
    12  federal enumeration, [one thousand] three hundred signatures;
    13    (f) For any office to be filled by all the voters of any other city or
    14  county, or of a councilmanic district in any city other than the city of
    15  New York, [five hundred] one hundred fifty signatures;
    16    (g) For any office to be filled by all the voters of any congressional
    17  district, [twelve hundred fifty] three hundred seventy-five signatures;
    18    (h) For any office to be filled by all the voters of any state senato-
    19  rial district, [one thousand] three hundred signatures;
    20    (i)  For  any  office  to  be  filled  by  all  voters of any assembly
    21  district, [five hundred] one hundred fifty signatures;
    22    (j) For any office to be filled by all the  voters  of  any  political
    23  subdivision,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  contained within
    24  another political subdivision, not to exceed the  number  of  signatures
    25  required for the larger subdivision;
    26    (k)  For  any  other  office to be filled by the voters of a political
    27  subdivision containing more than one assembly district, county or  other
    28  political  subdivision,  not  to  exceed the aggregate of the signatures
    29  required for the subdivisions or parts of subdivisions so contained; and
    30    (l) For any county legislative district, [five  hundred]  one  hundred
    31  fifty signatures.
    32    §  2.   Notwithstanding subdivision 4 of section 6-134 of the election
    33  law, the first day to sign a designating  petition  shall  be  March  2,
    34  2021.
    35    §  3.   Notwithstanding subdivision 1 of section 6-158 of the election
    36  law, a designating petition for the June 2021 primary election shall  be
    37  filed  with the appropriate board of elections on March 22 through March
    38  25, 2021 and the political calendar with respect to objections,  accept-
    39  ances,  authorizations,  declinations, substitutions and the last day to
    40  commence an election law article 16 proceeding shall be adjusted accord-
    41  ingly.
    42    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall not apply to any
    43  special election that will occur in the  city  of  New  York  for  which
    44  petitions  are  required  to be filed before February 15, 2021 and shall
    45  expire December 31, 2021, when upon such date the provisions of this act
    46  shall be deemed repealed.