Bill Text: NY A03181 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires local boards of elections to verify the number of enrolled members of a party in an election district and reject all petitions where there are no enrolled members of a party in such district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A03181 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03181-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3181 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the local boards of election to verify the number of enrolled members of a party in such districts and reject all petitions where there are no enrolled members of a party in such districts 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 6-154 of the election law is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 1. Any petition filed with the officer or board charged with the duty 4 of receiving it shall be presumptively valid if it is in proper form and 5 appears to bear the requisite number of signatures, authenticated in a 6 manner prescribed by this chapter, provided, however, that the local 7 board verifies the number of enrolled members of a party in such 8 districts and rejects all petitions where there are no enrolled members 9 of such party in such districts. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06549-01-9
