Relates to the dates to file a designating petition for Congress and party positions in 2024; provides that signatures for certain offices and party positions made earlier than February 29th made be counted.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9313
SPONSOR: Rivera TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to the dates to file a
designating petition; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
PURPOSE:
This bill would provide for the petitioning period in relation to the
adoption of new congressional maps.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 would move the petitioning start date for Congressional
offices in 2024 from February 27 to February 29.
Section 2 of the would provide for the treatment of election districts
bisected by a change in a Congressional district boundary line and the
affected party position elections therein.
Section 3 would establish the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is necessary to adjust the petitioning start date for prospec-
tive 2024 Congressional candidates in light of updated Congressional
district lines and to make adjustments to certain election districts
also impacted by such changes.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and expire December 31, 2024.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9313
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the dates to file a
designating petition; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
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 4-a to read as follows:
3 4-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision four of this
4 section, for the year two thousand twenty-four, any signature made on a
5 designating petition for the public office of representative in the
6 house of representatives of the congress of the United States, or any
7 party position elected from a congressional district, made earlier than
8 February twenty-ninth, two thousand twenty-four shall not be counted for
9 such office or party position; provided, however, any signature made on
10 a designating petition for offices or party positions other than for the
11 public office of representative in the house of representatives of the
12 congress of the United States, or any party position elected from a
13 congressional district, which is consistent with the time fixed in
14 subdivision four of this section shall be counted for such office or
15 party position.
16 § 2. Section 2-120 of the election law is amended by adding a new
17 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
18 1-a. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no change shall be
19 made to an election district line in effect as of February twenty-sev-
20 enth, two thousand twenty-four except if such election district is
21 bisected by a change in a congressional district boundary line. Such
22 change to an election district line shall be in conformance with the
23 provisions of this subdivision. Any election district as of February
24 twenty-seventh, two thousand twenty-four that is not bisected by a
25 change in a congressional district line shall not be changed nor renum-
26 bered after February twenty-seventh, two thousand twenty-four unless
27 specifically required by law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) For the year two thousand twenty-four, when a party position is to
2 be elected from an election district altered pursuant to this subdivi-
3 sion as a result of a new congressional district line bisecting such
4 election district, any candidate petitioning for such party position
5 therefrom shall be deemed to be a candidate from the new election
6 district created pursuant to this subdivision which has the largest
7 portion of the population of such original election district. Such
8 larger portion shall retain the election district number of the original
9 election district. The portion of such original election district with
10 the smaller population shall also be a new election district, but in the
11 year two thousand twenty-four, no party positions shall be elected ther-
12 efrom. Party positions from such smaller portion shall be deemed vacant
13 and shall be filled by the county committee pursuant to subdivision one
14 of section 2-118 of this article upon the reorganization of such party
15 committee. Such smaller election district shall be numbered by the next
16 unused election district number and no other election district shall be
17 renumbered.
18 (c) For purposes of the requirement that a county committee shall be
19 constituted by the election of at least twenty-five percent of its full
20 complement pursuant to subdivision three of section 2-104 of this arti-
21 cle, any newly created election district created pursuant to this subdi-
22 vision shall be excluded from such twenty-five percent computation.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
24 31, 2024 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
25 repealed.
