STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         944--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  prohibiting  a  court
          from bifurcating certain primary elections

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

     1    Section 1. Section 8-100 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  (a)  No  court shall issue an order changing the date of a primary
     4  election which bifurcates the offices and positions to  be  elected  and
     5  nominations  to be made as part of the same primary election pursuant to
     6  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section.
     7    (b) The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to  any  presi-
     8  dential primary.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





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