Bill Text: NY A08311 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the presidential primary and providing for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2016.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-24 - substituted by s6002 [A08311 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08311-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8311 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y June 19, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the election law relating to conducting the presidential primary, as proposed in legis- lative bill number S.5958, in relation to providing for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2016 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 7 of section 2-122-a of the election 2 law, as amended by section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending 3 the election law relating to conducting the presidential primary, as 4 proposed in legislative bill number S.5958, are amended to read as 5 follows: 6 2. If the rules of a state committee adopted pursuant to the 7 provisions of this section provide for a primary election in which the 8 office of president of the United States appears on the ballot, desig- 9 nation of candidates for such office shall be made pursuant to the 10 provisions of sections 6-100, 6-118, 6-122 (except that such candidates 11 need not be citizens of New York but only citizens of the United 12 States), 6-130, 6-132 (except that references to a committee to fill 13 vacancies shall be deemed references to a committee to receive notices), 14 6-134, 6-144, the provisions with respect to declinations in subdivi- 15 sions one and two of section 6-146 (except that references to a commit- 16 tee to fill vacancies shall be deemed references to a committee to 17 receive notices), 6-154, and subdivision one and the provision with 18 respect to declinations in subdivision two of section 6-158 (except that 19 such candidates may decline such designations not later than February 20 [sixteenth] EIGHTH, two thousand sixteen) of this chapter. The state 21 board of elections shall forthwith notify the appropriate county boards 22 of elections of any such declination filed. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11723-01-5 A. 8311 2 1 7. a. The rules of a state committee adopted pursuant to the 2 provisions of this section may provide that no candidate for the posi- 3 tions of delegate and alternate delegate may appear on the ballot as 4 pledged to support a particular presidential candidate, or as uncommit- 5 ted, unless the name of such candidate for such position appears on a 6 certificate listing the names of those candidates for such positions who 7 have filed statements of candidacy for such positions with the secretary 8 of the state committee within the time prescribed by such rules and who, 9 if their statements of candidacy contained a pledge of support of a 10 presidential candidate, were not rejected by such presidential candi- 11 date. Such certificate shall also list the address and sex of each such 12 candidate for delegate and alternate delegate and the district in which 13 such candidate may appear on the ballot. 14 b. Such certificate shall be filed by the secretary of such state 15 committee, with the board of elections with which the designating 16 petitions for such candidates for such positions are required to be 17 filed, not later than February [twenty-third] SIXTEENTH, two thousand 18 sixteen. 19 c. In the event that a designating petition for candidates for such 20 positions, listed as pledged to support a presidential candidate, 21 contains the names of one or more persons who have not been permitted by 22 such presidential candidate to appear on the ballot as so pledged pursu- 23 ant to the provisions of this section, then the names of such candidates 24 shall not appear on the ballot but the names of other candidates on such 25 petition who have been permitted by the presidential candidate to appear 26 on the ballot shall be placed on the ballot provided that such candi- 27 dates are otherwise eligible and that such petition is otherwise valid. 28 d. The state board of elections shall send a copy of the certificate 29 required by section 4-110 of this chapter to the secretary of the state 30 committee of each party conducting a primary pursuant to the provisions 31 of this section not later than [March third] FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH, two 32 thousand sixteen. Every other board of elections with which designating 33 petitions for delegate and alternate delegate were filed pursuant to the 34 provisions of this section shall, not later than [March fourth] FEBRUARY 35 TWENTY-SIXTH, two thousand sixteen, send a list of the names and 36 addresses of those candidates who will appear on the ballot to the 37 secretary of each such state committee. 38 S 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and the in the same 39 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the election law 40 relating to conducting the presidential primary, as proposed in legisla- 41 tive bill number S.5958, takes effect.