Bill Text: NY S02862 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the number of signatures for designating petitions for 2019; provides such shall be reduced by one-quarter, rounded down to the nearest whole number.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-20 - signed chap.17 [S02862 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02862-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2862 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 30, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 number of signa- tures for designating petitions in the year 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 4 to read as follows: 3 4. Except for the city of New York and notwithstanding subdivision two 4 of this section, for designations made by petition in the year two thou- 5 sand nineteen, the signature requirement numbers stated in paragraphs 6 (a) through (l) of subdivision two of this section shall be reduced by 7 one-quarter, rounded down to the nearest whole number. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December 9 31, 2019 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed 10 repealed. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08717-01-9