Bill Text: NY S00437 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00437 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00437-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           437

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of  the
          presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries

          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]  fourth  Tuesday  in  [February]  June
    14  unless  otherwise  changed by an act of the legislature, for the purpose
    15  of 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.
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