Bill Text: NY A09800 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9800 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits boards of elections to change the date of a primary election within fourteen days of an election if such election date conflicts with a religious holiday.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in election law [A09800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09800-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9800
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 9, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to permitting boards of
          elections to change the date of a primary election  if  such  election
          conflicts with a religious holiday
          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 17 of the laws of 2007, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) A primary election, to be known as the fall primary, shall be held
     5  on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in September  before  every
     6  general  election  unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature
     7  or unless otherwise changed by a board of elections within fourteen days
     8  of such election  if  the  election  date  conflicts  with  a  religious
     9  holiday.  In each year in which electors of president and vice president
    10  of the United States are to be elected an additional  primary  election,
    11  to be known as the spring primary, shall be held on the first Tuesday in
    12  February  unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature, for the
    13  purpose of electing delegates to the  national  convention,  members  of
    14  state  and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate
    15  assembly district leaders.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14682-01-8