Bill Text: NY A04682 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A04682 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04682-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4682

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 2023
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        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,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  744  of  the  laws  of 2022, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Any petition or certificate filed with the officer or board charged
     5  with the duty of receiving it shall be presumptively valid if it  is  in
     6  proper  form  and  appears  to  bear the requisite number of signatures,
     7  authenticated in a manner prescribed by this chapter, provided, however,
     8  that the local board verifies the number of enrolled members of a  party
     9  in  such districts and rejects all petitions where there are no enrolled
    10  members of such party in such district.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    12  ing the date on which it shall have become  a  law;  provided,  however,
    13  that  if  chapter 744 of the laws of 2022 shall not have taken effect on
    14  or before such date then section one of this act shall  take  effect  on
    15  the same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2022
    16  takes effect.



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