Bill Text: NY A04565 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reduces number of signatures required for a nominating petition for congressional districts to 2000 from 3500.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - enacting clause stricken [A04565 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04565-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4565
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the  number  of  signa-
         tures on nominating petitions
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2  of  section  6-142  of  the
    2  election  law,  as amended by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (e) for any office to be filled by all the voters of any congressional
    5  district, [three thousand five hundred] TWO THOUSAND;
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    7  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.
                                                                  LBD08683-01-5