Bill Text: NY A09967 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9967 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-02 - referred to election law [A09967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09967-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9967
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 2, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law
        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    § 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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