 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7675
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 5, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- 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 the definition  of  the
          term party
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1-104 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  For elections conducted on and after January first, two thousand
     4  twenty, the term "party" means any political organization which  at  the
     5  last  preceding  election  for  governor  polled at least fifty thousand
     6  votes for its candidate for governor.
     7    § 2. Paragraph A of part IV  of  the  final  report  of  the  campaign
     8  finance reform commission, issued on December 1, 2019, and made pursuant
     9  to  part  XXX of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, recommending changes to
    10  the definition of the term "party" in subdivision 3 of section 1-104  of
    11  the  election law, shall have been null and void and shall have no force
    12  or effect of law.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15043-02-0
Relates to the definition of the term party

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