Bill Text: NY S02734 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for regulation of delegates to a constitutional convention, their election, and public financing for such elections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 2734A [S02734 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02734-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2734--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, the legislative law, the public offi- cers law and the state finance law, in relation to the nomination and election of delegates to a constitutional convention The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and 2 declares that the power of the people of this state to call a constitu- 3 tional convention to periodically reevaluate their social contract is 4 one of the great democratic mechanisms in existence. It is important, 5 however, to ensure that the people of this state are fully represented 6 and have fair access to this important process. 7 § 2. Subdivision 1 and the opening paragraph and paragraph (h) of 8 subdivision 2 of section 6-136 of the election law, subdivision 1 as 9 amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 1996, the opening paragraph of 10 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994 and para- 11 graph (h) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, 12 are amended and three new subdivisions 2-a, 4 and 5 are added to read as 13 follows: 14 1. Petitions for any office to be filled by the voters of the entire 15 state, except the office of delegate-at-large to a convention to revise 16 and amend the state constitution, must be signed by not less than 17 fifteen thousand or five per centum, whichever is less, of the then 18 enrolled voters of the party in the state (excluding voters in inactive 19 status), of whom not less than one hundred or five per centum, whichever 20 is less, of such enrolled voters shall reside in each of one-half of the 21 congressional districts of the state. Petitions for the office of dele- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00242-03-6
