Bill Text: NY S01004 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, any state legislator, any elected county, city, town or village official, or any person who currently holds elective office from serving as a delegate to the constitutional convention.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01004 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01004-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1004 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- 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 prohibiting certain elected officials from serving as delegates to the constitutional convention The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 6-170 2 to read as follows: 3 § 6-170. Constitutional delegates. The governor, lieutenant governor, 4 attorney general, comptroller, any state legislator, any elected county, 5 city, town, or village official or any person who currently holds elec- 6 tive office shall not be eligible to qualify as a candidate for delegate 7 for a constitutional convention. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02878-01-7
