STATE OF NEW YORK
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8108
IN SENATE
March 23, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 moving the date of the
presidential primary to June 23, 2020
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 290 of the laws of 2019, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) A primary election shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
5 before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of the
6 legislature. Members of the state and county committees and assembly
7 district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party
8 positions to be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi-
9 nations for public office required to be made at a primary election in
10 such year shall be made at such primary. In the year two thousand twenty
11 in which electors of president and vice president of the United States
12 are to be elected an additional primary election, to be known as the
13 presidential primary, shall be held on [April twenty-eight] June twen-
14 ty-third, two thousand twenty unless otherwise changed by an act of the
15 legislature, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate deleg-
16 ates to the national convention.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, the
18 amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
19 election law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expi-
20 ration of such paragraph and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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