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A04142 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4142--A
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 1, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. NIOU -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Election  Law  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to candidate declination
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 6-146 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  A  person  designated  as  a candidate for two or more party nomi-
     4  nations for an office to be filled at the time of a general election who
     5  is not nominated at a primary election by one or more such  parties  may
     6  decline  the  nomination  of one or more parties not later than ten days
     7  after the primary election.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04488-02-1

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