Bill Text: NY A07404 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a new party to file a certificate following the election at which the party obtains party status.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-16 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A07404 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07404-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7404 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 25, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to filing name of new political party 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 2-124 of the election law is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 1. The state committee of a party shall select a name and emblem to 4 distinguish the candidates of the party for public office in all 5 districts of the state, and shall file in the office of the state board 6 of elections, a certificate executed by its chairman and secretary, 7 setting forth the name and showing the emblem so selected. A new party 8 shall file such first certificate not later than the last day of Febru- 9 ary following the election at which the party obtains party status and 10 shall take effect upon filing. Any other certificate filed changing the 11 name of a party shall take effect on the last day of January after the 12 next gubernatorial election. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11062-01-7
