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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5943
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, COMRIE, LIU, MYRIE, PERSAUD -- 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  the  order  in  which
          candidates appear on the ballot
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 7-104 of  the  election  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 411 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    11.  [The  offices  appearing  on  all  ballots shall be listed in the
     4  customary order] (a) The offices appearing on all ballots shall be list-
     5  ed in the order of precedence, as  applicable  to  the  offices  up  for
     6  election  in  any  given  year, as follows:   electors for president and
     7  vice-president of the United States, governor and  lieutenant  governor,
     8  New  York  state  comptroller,  New  York state attorney general, United
     9  States senator, member of the house of representatives, New  York  state
    10  senator, member of the New York state assembly.  Any office which is not
    11  listed  in  this  paragraph shall not appear on the ballot in a position
    12  before or ahead of an office which is listed.
    13    (b) Immediately following the offices in paragraph (a) of this  subdi-
    14  vision, all other offices shall be placed upon the ballot in the custom-
    15  ary  order;  provided,  further, that partisan offices regardless of the
    16  size of the constituency shall be listed before or ahead of  nonpartisan
    17  offices  and  all candidates for judicial offices shall follow all other
    18  partisan offices.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    20  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.
                                                                   LBD03289-01-3