Bill Text: NY A01109 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A01109 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01109-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1109

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of the
          presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries

          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 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
     3  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 each year in which  electors
    11  of  president  and vice president of the United States are to be elected
    12  an additional primary election[, to be known  as  the  spring  primary,]
    13  shall  also  be  held  on  the [first] fourth Tuesday in [February] June
    14  unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature, for  the  purpose
    15  of electing delegates to the national convention.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02190-01-3
feedback