Bill Text: NY S05428 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to obtaining written acceptance 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 county committee candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-10 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05428 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5428
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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  obtaining  written
          consent from candidates for 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  the  county  committee,  a  candidate's  written
     5  consent to be so designated, duly acknowledged, shall be appended to the
     6  sheets of such designating petition delivered to the board of elections.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11405-01-9