Bill Text: NY A00253 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to party nominations for candidates for office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - print number 253b [A00253 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00253-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         253--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election  Law  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to certain party nomi-
          nations for candidates for county office

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

     1    Section  1.  The election law is amended by adding a new section 6-109
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6-109. Party nominations; counties, excluding counties located with-
     4  in cities with a population of one million or more. 1. Party designation
     5  of a candidate for nomination in counties,  excluding  counties  located
     6  within  a  city with a population of one million or more, for any office
     7  to be filled by the voters of the entire county shall  be  made  by  the
     8  county committee, if the party rules of such county so provide.
     9    2.  The county committee shall make such designation by majority vote.
    10  The person receiving the majority vote shall be the  party's  designated
    11  candidate  for  nomination and all other persons who shall have received
    12  twenty-five percent or more of the vote cast on any  ballot  shall  have
    13  the right to make written demand, duly acknowledged, to the county board
    14  of elections that their names appear on the primary ballot as candidates
    15  for such nomination. Such demand shall be made not later than seven days
    16  after  such meeting and may be withdrawn in the same manner within four-
    17  teen days after such meeting. Upon the vote for such  designation,  each
    18  member  of  the  county  committee shall be entitled to cast a number of
    19  votes which shall be in accordance with the ratio which  the  number  of
    20  votes  for the party candidate for governor on the line or column of the
    21  party at the last preceding general state election in the unit of repre-
    22  sentation such member represents bears to the total vote  cast  on  such
    23  line  or  column at such election for such candidate for governor in the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00314-02-3
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     1  entire county. The apportionment of such votes as so prescribed shall be
     2  determined by the rules of the party.
     3    3.  Enrolled members of the party may make other designations by peti-
     4  tion for a member of the same party.
     5    4. The meeting of the county committee for the purpose of  designating
     6  candidates  shall  be  held  not earlier than twenty-one days before the
     7  first day to sign designating petitions and not later than the first day
     8  to sign designating petitions for the primary election.
     9    5. Within four days after such meeting,  the  county  committee  shall
    10  file with the county board of elections:
    11    (a)  the names of the persons who have received the designation of the
    12  county committee and the offices for which designated; and
    13    (b) the names of the persons selected by the committee to fill  vacan-
    14  cies  or a certified copy of the party rule empowering such committee to
    15  fill vacancies.
    16    6. No person may be designated by a county committee for more than one
    17  office pursuant to the provisions of this section.
    18    7. Party designation of a candidate for any office contained within  a
    19  county  shall be designated by the county committee members representing
    20  the political subdivision of such office, if the  party  rules  of  such
    21  county so provide.
    22    8.  A  candidate for office from a district which crosses county lines
    23  shall be designated by the county committee members from  such  district
    24  if  the  rules of the county committees of each such county shall all so
    25  provide.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
    27  applicable elections held on or after such date.