Bill Text: NY S01283 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the order in which candidates appear on the ballot; requires that offices shall be listed on the ballot in descending order based on the size of the electorate and requires certain federal offices to be listed before state, county or local offices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-10 - referred to election law [S01283 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01283-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1283

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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  the  order  in  which
          candidates appear on the ballot

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 7-104 of  the  election  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 411 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    11.  [The  offices  appearing  on  all  ballots shall be listed in the
     4  customary order] (a) The offices appearing on all ballots shall be list-
     5  ed in the order of precedence, as  applicable  to  the  offices  up  for
     6  election  in  any  given  year, as follows:   electors for president and
     7  vice-president of the United States, governor and  lieutenant  governor,
     8  New  York  state  comptroller,  New  York state attorney general, United
     9  States senator, member of the house of representatives, New  York  state
    10  senator, member of the New York state assembly.  Any office which is not
    11  listed  in  this  paragraph shall not appear on the ballot in a position
    12  before or ahead of an office which is listed.
    13    (b) Immediately following the offices in paragraph (a) of this  subdi-
    14  vision, all other offices shall be placed upon the ballot in the custom-
    15  ary  order;  provided,  further, that partisan offices regardless of the
    16  size of the constituency shall be listed before or ahead of  nonpartisan
    17  offices  and  all candidates for judicial offices shall follow all other
    18  partisan offices.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02981-01-1