Bill Text: NY S05428 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to obtaining written acceptance from candidates for certain county committees; requires written acceptance, duly acknowledged, from such candidates to be so designated to be filed within ten days of designating petitions for certain county committee candidates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-10 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05428 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05428-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5428--A Cal. No. 850 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 30, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to obtaining written consent from candidates for certain county committees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6-134 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 14 to read as follows: 3 14. In the case of a designating petition for election to the party 4 position of member of a county committee located within a city having a 5 population of one million or more, a candidate's written acceptance to 6 be so designated, duly acknowledged, shall be delivered to the board of 7 elections within ten days of the filing of such designating petition. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11405-06-9