Bill Text: NY A05381 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the placement of certain offices on the ballots of general elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-04 - REFERRED TO RULES [A05381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05381-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5381--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 8, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Election  Law  --  recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the  public  officers  law  and  the  election  law,  in
          relation  to  the  placement  of  certain  offices on general election
          ballots
          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 42 of the public officers law, as
     2  amended by chapter 878 of the laws  of  1946,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  A  vacancy occurring before September twentieth of any year in any
     5  office authorized to be filled at a  general  election,  except  in  the
     6  offices  of  governor  or  lieutenant-governor,  shall  be filled at the
     7  general election held next thereafter, unless otherwise provided by  the
     8  constitution,  or unless previously filled at a special election. When a
     9  special election has not been called to fill a vacancy, and  the  office
    10  is  to  be  filled  at the general election for more than one sequential
    11  period, then such office shall appear only once on the  ballot  at  such
    12  general election.
    13    § 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 6-149 to read
    14  as follows:
    15    §  6-149.  Filling  vacancies  at the general election. When a special
    16  election has not been called to fill a vacancy, and the office is to  be
    17  filled at the general election for more than one sequential period, then
    18  then  such  office  shall appear only once on the ballot at such general
    19  election.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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