Bill Text: NY S06452 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to primary elections and amends certain deadlines to facilitate the timely transmission of ballots to military voters stationed overseas; relates to filling vacancies in elective offices; relates to the date of primary elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - PRINT NUMBER 6452A [S06452 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06452-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6452--A
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  STEWART-COUSINS, LATIMER, ADDABBO, COMRIE, DILAN,
          GIANARIS, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, PERSAUD, SQUADRON, STAVISKY -- read  twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on  Veterans,  Homeland  Security  and  Military  Affairs -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to primary  elections  and
          amending  certain  deadlines  to facilitate the timely transmission of
          ballots to military voters stationed overseas and in relation to  date
          of  primary  elections;  and  to  amend  the  public  officers law, in
          relation to filling vacancies in elective offices
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 1-106 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 700 of the laws  of  1977,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  All papers required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of this
     5  chapter shall, unless otherwise provided, be filed between the hours  of
     6  nine  A.M.  and  five  P.M.  If  the last day for filing shall fall on a
     7  Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the next business  day  shall  become
     8  the  last  day  for filing. All papers sent by mail in an envelope post-
     9  marked prior to midnight of the last day of filing shall be deemed time-
    10  ly filed and accepted for filing when received, except that all  certif-
    11  icates  and  petitions  of  designation  or  nomination, certificates of
    12  acceptance or declination of such designations or  nominations,  certif-
    13  icates  of  authorization  for such designations or nominations, certif-
    14  icates of disqualification, certificates of substitution for such desig-
    15  nations or nominations and objections and specifications  of  objections
    16  to  such  certificates and petitions required to be filed with the state
    17  board of elections or a board of elections outside of the  city  of  New
    18  York  shall  be  deemed  timely filed and accepted for filing if sent by
    19  mail or designated delivery service permitted by  subdivision  three  of
    20  this  section,  in  an envelope postmarked prior to midnight of the last
    21  day of filing and received no later than two  business  days  after  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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