 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 1, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to primary election dates
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
     2  election law, as amended by chapter 17 of the laws of 2007,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  A  primary  election[, to be known as the fall primary,] shall be
     5  held on the [first] third Tuesday [after the second Monday] in  [Septem-
     6  ber]  June  before every general election unless otherwise changed by an
     7  act of the legislature. In each year in which electors of president  and
     8  vice  president  of  the  United  States are to be elected an additional
     9  primary election, to be known as the spring primary, shall  be  held  on
    10  the  first Tuesday in February unless otherwise changed by an act of the
    11  legislature, for the purpose  of  electing  delegates  to  the  national
    12  convention, members of state and county committees and assembly district
    13  leaders and associate assembly district leaders.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09458-01-7
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