Bill Text: NY S07675 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the definition of the term party.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07675 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07675-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7675 IN SENATE February 5, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- 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 definition of the term party The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1-104 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 3-a to read as follows: 3 3-a. For elections conducted on and after January first, two thousand 4 twenty, the term "party" means any political organization which at the 5 last preceding election for governor polled at least fifty thousand 6 votes for its candidate for governor. 7 § 2. Paragraph A of part IV of the final report of the campaign 8 finance reform commission, issued on December 1, 2019, and made pursuant 9 to part XXX of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, recommending changes to 10 the definition of the term "party" in subdivision 3 of section 1-104 of 11 the election law, shall have been null and void and shall have no force 12 or effect of law. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15043-02-0