STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5428 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 30, 2019 ___________ 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