Bill Text: NY S03688 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends deadline to June 1st for calling special elections to fill vacancies in the offices of state senator and member of assembly.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S03688 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S03688-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3688 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 2, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADAMS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to extending the deadline for calling special elections to fill vacancies in the offices of state senator and member of assembly THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 42 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 317 of the laws of 1954, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. A special election shall not be held to fill a vacancy in the 5 office of a representative in congress unless such vacancy occurs on or 6 before the first day of July of the last year of the term of office, or 7 unless it occurs thereafter and a special session of congress is called 8 to meet before the next general election, or be called after September 9 nineteenth of such year; nor to fill a vacancy in the office of state 10 senator or in the office of member of assembly, unless the vacancy 11 occurs ON OR before the first day of [April] JUNE of the last year of 12 the term of office, or unless the vacancy occurs in either such office 13 of senator or member of assembly after such first day of [April] JUNE 14 and a special session of the legislature be called to meet between such 15 first day of [April] JUNE and the next general election or be called 16 after September nineteenth in such year. If a special election to fill 17 an office shall not be held as required by law, the [office] VACANCY 18 shall be filled at the next general election. 19 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07509-01-1