Bill Text: NY A02651 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Reduces number of signatures required for a nominating petition for congressional district 2000 from 3500.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-24 - print number 2651c [A02651 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02651-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2651--C
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 21, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Election  Law  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
         to the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assembly  Rule  3,
         sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to  the
         Committee  on  Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to the number of signa-
         tures on nominating petitions
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision 2 of section 6-142 of the
    2  election law, as amended by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (e) for any office to be filled by all the voters of any congressional
    5  district, [three thousand five hundred] TWO THOUSAND;
    6    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    7  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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