Bill Text: NY A03321 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3321 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An act to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the local boards of election to verify the number of enrolled members of a party in such districts and reject all petitions where there are no enrolled members of a party in such districts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to election law [A03321 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03321-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3321
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 26, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GORDON
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  requiring  the  local
         boards of election to verify the number of enrolled members of a party
         in such districts and reject all petitions where there are no enrolled
         members of a party in such districts
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  6-154  of  the  election  law  is
    2  amended to read as follows:
    3    1.  Any petition filed with the officer or board charged with the duty
    4  of receiving it shall be presumptively valid if it is in proper form and
    5  appears to bear the requisite number of signatures, authenticated  in  a
    6  manner  prescribed  by  this  chapter, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE LOCAL
    7  BOARD VERIFIES THE NUMBER  OF  ENROLLED  MEMBERS  OF  A  PARTY  IN  SUCH
    8  DISTRICTS  AND REJECTS ALL PETITIONS WHERE THERE ARE NO ENROLLED MEMBERS
    9  OF SUCH PARTY IN SUCH DISTRICTS.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   11  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.
                                                                  LBD06757-01-9