Bill Text: NY A05234 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Eliminates the ability of judicial candidates for office who are enrolled in a particular party to automatically be allowed to run as a candidate in another party's primary election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - referred to election law [A05234 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A05234-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5234 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, SHIMSKY, DINOWITZ, OTIS, BURDICK, PAULIN, GIBBS, KIM, REYES, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to eliminating the ability of judicial candidates for office who are enrolled in a particular party to automatically be allowed to run as a candidate in another party's primary election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 6-120 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. This section shall not apply to a political party designating or 5 nominating candidates for the first time[,] or to candidates nominated 6 by party caucus[, nor to candidates for judicial offices]. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03658-01-5
