Bill Text: NY A09310 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Moves the date of the presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March, also known as Super Tuesday.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-07 - referred to election law [A09310 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A09310-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9310

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 10, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. DAIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of  the
          presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  8-100  of  the
     2  election law, as amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  A  primary  election  shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
     5  before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
     6  legislature.  Members  of  the  state and county committees and assembly
     7  district leaders and associate district  leaders  and  all  other  party
     8  positions  to  be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi-
     9  nations for public office required to be made at a primary  election  in
    10  such  year shall be made at such primary. In each year in which electors
    11  of president and vice president of the United States are to  be  elected
    12  an  additional  primary  election[,  to be known as the spring primary,]
    13  shall also be held on the  first  Tuesday  in  [February]  March  unless
    14  otherwise  changed  by  an  act  of  the legislature, for the purpose of
    15  electing delegates to the national convention.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13965-01-5
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