Bill Text: NY A05358 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain candidates to file a statement attesting to the veracity of statements regarding the candidate's educational history, and service, employment and residency record; provides for the filing of amended statements; provides penalties.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - print number 5358c [A05358 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05358-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5358

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to requiring certain
          candidates to file a statement attesting that they meet the  residency
          requirements of the 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  6-170
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6-170.  Designating petitions and independent nomination petitions;
     4  statement of candidates. Any designating petition prepared in accordance
     5  with section 6-132 of this article or  independent  nomination  petition
     6  prepared  in  accordance  with  section  6-140  of this article shall be
     7  accompanied by a sworn statement of the candidate  being  designated  or
     8  nominated.  Such statement shall include an attestation by the candidate
     9  that they meet the residency requirements of the office they are seeking
    10  and that their residential address, as contained within the petition, is
    11  accurate and true.  Such statement shall be attested to by the candidate
    12  under penalty of perjury, notarized and filed with the designating peti-
    13  tion or independent nomination petition.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    16  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    17  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    18  on or before such effective date.



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