Bill Text: NY A10160 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Decreases the number of signatures needed for designating petitions and independent nominations by one-third for political subdivisions, wholly or in part, within a county in which one or more residents have been confirmed to be diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for year two thousand twenty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-24 - referred to election law [A10160 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10160-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10160

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 24, 2020
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to decreasing the number
          of signatures needed for designating petitions and  independent  nomi-
          nations in counties with coronavirus 2019

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

     1    Section 1. Section 6-136 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  For designating petitions for political subdivisions, wholly or in
     4  part, within a county in which one or more residents have been confirmed
     5  to be diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019  (COVID-19)  and  notwith-
     6  standing subdivision two of this section, for petitions made in the year
     7  two  thousand  twenty, the signature requirement numbers stated in para-
     8  graphs (a) through (l) of subdivision  two  of  this  section  shall  be
     9  reduced by one-third, rounded down to the nearest whole number.
    10    §  2.  Section  6-142  of  the election law is amended by adding a new
    11  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    12    3. For independent nominations for political subdivisions,  wholly  or
    13  in  part,  within  a  county  in  which  one or more residents have been
    14  confirmed to be diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019  (COVID-19)  and
    15  notwithstanding subdivision two of this section, for nominations made in
    16  the  year  two thousand twenty, the signature requirement numbers stated
    17  in paragraphs (a) through (i) of subdivision two of this  section  shall
    18  be reduced by one-third, rounded down to the nearest whole number.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15743-01-0