Assembly Actions -
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Mar 27, 2020 |
referred to election law |
Assembly Bill A10227
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
DINOWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Jo Anne Simon
Robert C. Carroll
Steve Stern
Fred Thiele
multi-Sponsors
Steven Englebright
2019-A10227 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Election Law
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§8-100, 8-400 & 7-102, El L
2019-A10227 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to moving the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020; permits absentee voting in the event of an imminent, impending or urgent threat resulting from a disease outbreak; removes certain presidential candidates and their delegates from primary ballot where the candidate has suspended their campaigns or removed themselves from consideration for election to such office.
2019-A10227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10227 I N A S S E M B L Y March 27, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- 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; permitting absentee voting in the event of an imminent, impending or urgent threat resulting from a disease outbreak; removing certain presidential candidates and their delegates from primary ballots; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof 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. Subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the election law, as amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2010 and paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 375 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 1. A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this chapter if, on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of elections, primary election, special election, general election or New York city community school board district or city of Buffalo school district election, he or she expects to be: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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