Senate Bill S5475

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to opportunity to ballot committee to receive notices

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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-S5475 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6714
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6-164, El L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A9984

2019-S5475 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to opportunity to ballot committee to receive notices as if such committee was a candidate named on a petition.

2019-S5475 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5475
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 2, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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 opportunity  to  ballot
   committee to receive notices
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 6-164 of the election law, as amended by chapter 16
 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
   § 6-164. Primary, uncontested; opportunity to ballot. Enrolled members
 of a party entitled to vote in the nomination of a candidate for  public
 office  or  the  election of a candidate for party position in a primary
 election of such party, and equal in number to at least  the  number  of
 signers  required  to  designate a candidate for such office or position
 may file with the officer or board with whom or which are  filed  desig-
 nating  petitions  for  such office or position a petition requesting an
 opportunity to write in the name of a candidate or candidates, who  need
 not  be specified, for such office or position. Upon the receipt of such
 a petition, such office or position shall be deemed  contested  and  the
 primary  ballots of the party shall afford an opportunity to vote there-
 on.  Requests for an opportunity to write in the names of candidates for
 two or more offices or positions may be included in the  same  petition.
 Such  petitions  shall  be subject to objections and court determination
 thereof in the same manner  as  designating  petitions  so  far  as  the
 provisions therefor are applicable. All required notices shall be served
 on  the members of the committee named in the petition, AND SUCH COMMIT-
 TEE SHALL HAVE CAPACITY TO BRING A PROCEEDING UNDER THIS CHAPTER  AS  IF
 SUCH  COMMITTEE  WAS  A CANDIDATE NAMED ON A PETITION.  A signature to a
 petition for an opportunity to ballot in primary elections made  earlier
 than  sixteen days before the last day to file designating petitions for
 the primary election shall not be counted.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of December after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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