Bill Text: NY A05057 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5057

                               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 -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

        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. Subdivision 1 of section 6-158  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  A  designating  petition shall be filed not earlier than the thir-
     4  teenth [Monday] Wednesday before, and not later than the twelfth [Thurs-
     5  day] Monday preceding the primary election.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire  December
     7  31,  2023 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
     8  repealed.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09819-01-3