Bill Text: NY A09108 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to primary elections and amends certain deadlines to facilitate the timely transmission of ballots to military voters stationed overseas; relates to filling vacancies in elective offices; relates to the date of primary elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-02 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [A09108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09108-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9108
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUSICK,  HEASTIE, FARRELL, GOTTFRIED, GALEF,
          DINOWITZ, CAHILL,  PAULIN,  O'DONNELL,  HEVESI,  DenDEKKER,  ABINANTI,
          BRONSON, SIMOTAS, BRINDISI, SIMANOWITZ, SKOUFIS, MAYER, ROZIC, STIRPE,
          FAHY,  SEPULVEDA, SCHIMEL, ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.   BENEDETTO,  BLAKE,  BRAUNSTEIN,  BUCHWALD,  KAMINSKY,
          KAVANAGH,  LENTOL, LIFTON, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, MILLER, MOSLEY, RODRI-
          GUEZ, SANTABARBARA,  SCHIMMINGER,  SIMON,  STECK,  THIELE,  WEINSTEIN,
          ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to primary elections and
          amending certain deadlines to facilitate the  timely  transmission  of
          ballots  to military voters stationed overseas and in relation to date
          of primary elections;  and  to  amend  the  public  officers  law,  in
          relation to filling vacancies in elective offices
          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 1-106  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  700  of  the  laws  of 1977, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. All papers required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of  this
     5  chapter  shall, unless otherwise provided, be filed between the hours of
     6  nine A.M. and five P.M. If the last day  for  filing  shall  fall  on  a
     7  Saturday,  Sunday  or  legal holiday, the next business day shall become
     8  the last day for filing. All papers sent by mail in  an  envelope  post-
     9  marked prior to midnight of the last day of filing shall be deemed time-
    10  ly  filed and accepted for filing when received, except that all certif-
    11  icates and petitions  of  designation  or  nomination,  certificates  of
    12  acceptance  or  declination of such designations or nominations, certif-
    13  icates of authorization for such designations  or  nominations,  certif-
    14  icates of disqualification, certificates of substitution for such desig-
    15  nations  or  nominations and objections and specifications of objections
    16  to such certificates and petitions required to be filed with  the  state
    17  board  of  elections  or a board of elections outside of the city of New
    18  York shall be deemed timely filed and accepted for  filing  if  sent  by
    19  mail  or  designated  delivery service permitted by subdivision three of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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