Assembly Bill A10173

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to moving the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10173 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8108
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6623, S1819
2023-2024: A1109, S437

2019-A10173 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Moves the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020.

2019-A10173 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10173
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of the
   presidential primary to June 23, 2020
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 290 of the laws of 2019, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (a)  A  primary  election  shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
 before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
 legislature.    Members  of the state and county committees and assembly
 district leaders and associate district  leaders  and  all  other  party
 positions  to  be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi-
 nations for public office required to be made at a primary  election  in
 such year shall be made at such primary. In the year two thousand twenty
 in  which  electors of president and vice president of the United States
 are to be elected an additional primary election, to  be  known  as  the
 presidential  primary,  shall be held on [April twenty-eight] JUNE TWEN-
 TY-THIRD, two thousand twenty unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
 legislature,  for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate deleg-
 ates to the national convention.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided,  however,  the
 amendments  to  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
 election law made by section one of this act shall not affect the  expi-
 ration of such paragraph and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15917-01-0

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