Bill Text: NY A10389 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits a court from bifurcating the primary elections for members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party positions to be elected and all nominations for public office required to be made at a primary election in such year, except presidential primaries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - referred to election law [A10389 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A10389-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10389 IN ASSEMBLY May 21, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting a court from bifurcating certain primary elections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 8-100 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. (a) No court shall issue an order changing the date of a primary 4 election which bifurcates the offices and positions to be elected and 5 nominations to be made as part of the same primary election pursuant to 6 paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section. 7 (b) The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any presi- 8 dential primary. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02229-03-4
