Bill Text: NY A05057 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the dates to file a designating petition; provides for the repeal of such provisions.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-3)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-31 - signed chap.120 [A05057 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05057-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5057--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES, WALKER, DINOWITZ, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, EICHENSTEIN, GIBBS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI, LAVINE, LEE, PAULIN, PHEF- FER AMATO, RAGA, D. ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, SEAWRIGHT, SEPTIMO, SIMONE, ZACCARO, RA, BRAUNSTEIN, KELLES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, STERN, LEVENBERG, GLICK, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the dates to file a designating petition; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6-158 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision one of this 4 section, for the year two thousand twenty-three, such designating peti- 5 tion required to be filed by such subdivision shall be filed not earlier 6 than the thirteenth Monday before, and not later than the twelfth Monday 7 preceding the primary election. 8 § 2. Section 6-134 of the election law is amended by adding a new 9 subdivision 4-a to read as follows: 10 4-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision four of this 11 section, for the year two thousand twenty-three, a signature made earli- 12 er than forty-one days before the last day to file designating petitions 13 for the primary election, or a signature made later than the twelfth 14 Thursday preceding the primary election, shall not be counted. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December 16 31, 2023 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed 17 repealed. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09819-04-3
