Bill Text: NY S08108 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Moves the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-23 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S08108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08108-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8108

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 moving the date of  the
          presidential primary to June 23, 2020

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  8-100  of  the
     2  election  law, as amended by chapter 290 of the laws of 2019, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) A primary election shall be held on the  fourth  Tuesday  in  June
     5  before  every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of the
     6  legislature.  Members of the state and county  committees  and  assembly
     7  district  leaders  and  associate  district  leaders and all other party
     8  positions to be elected shall be elected at such primary and  all  nomi-
     9  nations  for  public office required to be made at a primary election in
    10  such year shall be made at such primary. In the year two thousand twenty
    11  in which electors of president and vice president of the  United  States
    12  are  to  be  elected  an additional primary election, to be known as the
    13  presidential primary, shall be held on [April twenty-eight]  June  twen-
    14  ty-third,  two thousand twenty unless otherwise changed by an act of the
    15  legislature, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate  deleg-
    16  ates to the national convention.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, the
    18  amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of  section  8-100  of  the
    19  election  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expi-
    20  ration of such paragraph and shall be deemed to expire therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15917-01-0