Bill Text: NY S09788 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the seventy-two hour filing requirement for minutes of a nomination convention to three days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to election law [S09788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09788-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9788

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 30, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- (at request of the State Board of
          Elections) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to filing minutes of
          convention

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section 6-158 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 474 of the laws  of  2023,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    6.  (a)  A  certificate  of  a party nomination made other than at the
     5  primary election for an office to be filled at the  time  of  a  general
     6  election shall be filed not later than thirty days after the June prima-
     7  ry  election,  (b) except that a certificate of nomination for an office
     8  which becomes vacant  after  the  seventh  day  preceding  such  primary
     9  election shall be filed not later than thirty days after the June prima-
    10  ry election or ten days after the creation of such vacancy, whichever is
    11  later,  and  (c) except, further, that a certificate of party nomination
    12  of candidates for elector of president and vice-president of the  United
    13  States  shall  be filed not later than seventy-three days after the June
    14  primary election, and (d) except still further  that  a  certificate  of
    15  party  nomination  made at a judicial district convention shall be filed
    16  not later than the day after the last day to hold  such  convention  and
    17  the  minutes of such convention, duly certified by the [chairman] chair-
    18  person and secretary, shall be filed within  [seventy-two  hours]  three
    19  days  after  adjournment of the convention. A certificate of party nomi-
    20  nation for an office to be filled at a special election shall  be  filed
    21  not later than ten days following the issuance of a proclamation of such
    22  election,  provided,  however, such certificate shall be filed not later
    23  than seven days following the issuance of a proclamation for  a  special
    24  election  held  pursuant  to paragraph b of subdivision three of section
    25  forty-two of the public officers law.
    26    § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 6-158 of the election law, as amended by
    27  chapter 164 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15780-01-4
        S. 9788                             2

     1    6. (a) A certificate of a party nomination  made  other  than  at  the
     2  primary  election  for  an  office to be filled at the time of a general
     3  election shall be filed not later than thirty  days  after  the  primary
     4  election,  (b)  except  that  a  certificate of nomination for an office
     5  which  becomes  vacant  after  the  seventh  day  preceding such primary
     6  election shall be filed not later than thirty  days  after  the  primary
     7  election  or  ten  days after the creation of such vacancy, whichever is
     8  later, and (c) except, further, that a certificate of  party  nomination
     9  of  candidates for elector of president and vice-president of the United
    10  States shall be filed not later than seventy-four days after the primary
    11  election, and (d) except still further that a certificate of party nomi-
    12  nation made at a judicial district convention shall be filed  not  later
    13  than  the day after the last day to hold such convention and the minutes
    14  of such convention, duly certified by  the  [chairman]  chairperson  and
    15  secretary,  shall  be  filed within [seventy-two hours] three days after
    16  adjournment of the convention. A certificate of party nomination for  an
    17  office  to be filled at a special election shall be filed not later than
    18  ten days following the issuance of  a  proclamation  of  such  election,
    19  provided,  however, such certificate shall be filed not later than seven
    20  days following the issuance of a proclamation  for  a  special  election
    21  held  pursuant  to paragraph b of subdivision three of section forty-two
    22  of the public officers law.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect on  the  fifteenth  of  December  next
    24  succeeding  the  date on which it shall have become a law, provided that
    25  the amendments to subdivision 6 of section 6-158  of  the  election  law
    26  made  by  section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and
    27  reversion of such subdivision pursuant to section 18 of chapter  474  of
    28  the  laws  of  2023,  as  amended, when upon such date the provisions of
    29  section two of this act shall take effect.