Bill Text: NY S08862 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the declination of a designation as a candidate or nomination for a party position if the person designated or nominated has received a diagnosis of a serious health condition or has resigned the office for which they are nominated or designated to run for re-election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-22 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S08862 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08862-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8862

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2024
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        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  providing  for  the
          declination  of a designation as a candidate or nomination for a party
          position under special circumstances

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 7 of section 6-146 of the
     2  election law, as added by chapter 178 of the laws of  2022,  is  amended
     3  and two new paragraphs (d) and (e) are added to read as follows:
     4    (c)  where the person so nominated or designated has been convicted of
     5  one or more misdemeanors or felonies under state or federal law  at  any
     6  time after such person's designation or nomination[.]; or
     7    (d) where the person so nominated or designated has received a diagno-
     8  sis of a serious health condition at any time after such person's desig-
     9  nation  or nomination. For the purposes of this section, the term "seri-
    10  ous  health  condition"  shall  be  defined  as  an   illness,   injury,
    11  impairment,  or  physical or mental condition, including transplantation
    12  preparation and  recovery  from  surgery  related  to  organ  or  tissue
    13  donation,  that involves inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or resi-
    14  dential health care facility, continuing treatment or continuing  super-
    15  vision  by  a  health  care provider. Continuing supervision by a health
    16  care provider includes a period of incapacity which is permanent or long
    17  term due to a condition for which treatment may not be  effective  where
    18  the  family  member is under the continuing supervision of, but need not
    19  be receiving active treatment by, a health care provider; or
    20    (e) where the person so  nominated  or  designated  has  resigned  the
    21  office  for  which  they are nominated or designated to run for re-elec-
    22  tion, for any reason, at any time after  such  person's  designation  or
    23  nomination.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05710-05-4