Bill Text: NY A07488 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to obtaining written consent from candidates for certain county committees; requires written acceptance, duly acknowledged, from such candidates to be so designated to be filed within ten days of designating petitions for certain committee candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A07488 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07488-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7488--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN, MOSLEY, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.   RAMOS -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Election  Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  obtaining  written
          consent from candidates for certain county committees

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

     1    Section 1. Section 6-134 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14.  In  the  case of a designating petition for election to the party
     4  position of member of a county committee located within a city having  a
     5  population  of  one million or more, a candidate's written acceptance to
     6  be so designated, duly acknowledged, shall be delivered to the board  of
     7  elections within ten days of the filing of such designating petition.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11405-07-9