New York Assembly Bill A04682 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4682 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 22, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the local boards of election to verify the number of enrolled members of a party in such districts and reject all petitions where there are no enrolled members of a party in such districts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6-154 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 744 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. Any petition or certificate filed with the officer or board charged 5 with the duty of receiving it shall be presumptively valid if it is in 6 proper form and appears to bear the requisite number of signatures, 7 authenticated in a manner prescribed by this chapter, provided, however, 8 that the local board verifies the number of enrolled members of a party 9 in such districts and rejects all petitions where there are no enrolled 10 members of such party in such district. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, 13 that if chapter 744 of the laws of 2022 shall not have taken effect on 14 or before such date then section one of this act shall take effect on 15 the same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2022 16 takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09462-01-3