Bill Text: NY S05462 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to declining party nominations after primary elections; provides that a certificate to fill a vacancy by declination shall be filed not later than twenty days after such declination has been filed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-11 - referred to election law [S05462 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05462-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5462--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 1, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to declining party nomi- nations after primary elections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6-158 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 15 to read as follows: 3 15. (a) A person who has been designated for nomination for public 4 office by any party or parties and who thereafter does not receive one 5 or more such nominations may decline any nomination or nominations for 6 such office by filing a certificate of declination not later than the 7 fifteenth day after the primary election. 8 (b) A certificate to fill a vacancy by declination pursuant to this 9 subdivision shall be filed not later than twenty days after such decli- 10 nation has been filed. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 12 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. LBD09178-03-9
