New York Assembly Bill A02230 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2230 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to nominating and desig- nating petitions and certificates The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6-158 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 434 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. A certificate of acceptance or declination of a designation shall 5 be filed not later than the fourth day after the last day to file such 6 designation, except that a candidate who files such a certificate of 7 acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or 8 petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any 9 party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than 10 the seventh day after the primary election. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04720-01-5