Bill Text: NY S08446 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to party nominations for candidates for county office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-30 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S08446 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08446-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8446

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- 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  certain  party  nomi-
          nations for candidates for county office

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  6-109
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6-109. Party nominations; counties, excluding counties located with-
     4  in cities with a population of one million or more. 1. Party designation
     5  of  a  candidate  for nomination in counties, excluding counties located
     6  within a city with a population of one million or more, for  any  office
     7  to  be  filled  by  the voters of the entire county shall be made by the
     8  county committee, if the party rules of such county so provide.
     9    2. The county committee shall make such designation by majority  vote.
    10  The  person  receiving the majority vote shall be the party's designated
    11  candidate for nomination and all other persons who shall  have  received
    12  twenty-five  percent  or  more of the vote cast on any ballot shall have
    13  the right to make written demand, duly acknowledged, to the county board
    14  of elections that their names appear on the primary ballot as candidates
    15  for such nomination. Such demand shall be made not later than seven days
    16  after such meeting and may be withdrawn in the same manner within  four-
    17  teen  days  after such meeting. Upon the vote for such designation, each
    18  member of the county committee shall be entitled to  cast  a  number  of
    19  votes  which  shall  be in accordance with the ratio which the number of
    20  votes for the party candidate for governor on the line or column of  the
    21  party at the last preceding general state election in the unit of repre-
    22  sentation  such  member  represents bears to the total vote cast on such
    23  line or column at such election for such candidate for governor  in  the
    24  entire county. The apportionment of such votes as so prescribed shall be
    25  determined by the rules of the party.
    26    3.  Enrolled members of the party may make other designations by peti-
    27  tion for a member of the same party.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00314-03-4
        S. 8446                             2

     1    4. The meeting of the county committee for the purpose of  designating
     2  candidates  shall  be  held  not earlier than twenty-one days before the
     3  first day to sign designating petitions and not later than the first day
     4  to sign designating petitions for the primary election.
     5    5.  Within  four  days  after such meeting, the county committee shall
     6  file with the county board of elections:
     7    (a) the names of the persons who have received the designation of  the
     8  county committee and the offices for which designated; and
     9    (b)  the names of the persons selected by the committee to fill vacan-
    10  cies or a certified copy of the party rule empowering such committee  to
    11  fill vacancies.
    12    6. No person may be designated by a county committee for more than one
    13  office pursuant to the provisions of this section.
    14    7.  Party designation of a candidate for any office contained within a
    15  county shall be designated by the county committee members  representing
    16  the  political  subdivision  of  such office, if the party rules of such
    17  county so provide.
    18    8. A candidate for office from a district which crosses  county  lines
    19  shall  be  designated by the county committee members from such district
    20  if the rules of the county committees of each such county shall  all  so
    21  provide.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    23  applicable elections held on or after such date.