STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1687 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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 moving the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries 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 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (a) A primary election shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June 5 before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of the 6 legislature. Members of the state and county committees and assembly 7 district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party 8 positions to be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi- 9 nations for public office required to be made at a primary election in 10 such year shall be made at such primary. In each year in which electors 11 of president and vice president of the United States are to be elected 12 an additional primary election[, to be known as the spring primary,] 13 shall also be held on the [first] fourth Tuesday in [February] June 14 unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature, for the purpose 15 of electing delegates to the national convention. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03982-01-5