NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5057B
SPONSOR: Bores TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to the dates to file a
designating petition; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to change the dates of petition filing to
allow observant Jewish candidates and staff to file without interfering
with Passover.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill would establish that for 2023, designating
petitions must be filed not earlier than the thirteenth Monday before
and not later than the twelfth Monday preceding the primary election.
This would allow petitions to be filed between April 3, 2023 and April
10, 2023.
Section two of the bill would establish that for 2023, any signatures
for a designating petition made earlier than 41 days before the last day
to file designating petitions for the primary election (February 28,
2023) or made later than the twelfth Thursday preceding the primary
election (April 6, 2023) shall not be counted.
Section three would establish the effective date.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):
The B-print amendments provide that a signature made later than the
twelfth Thursday preceding the primary election (April 6, 2023) shall
not be counted.
JUSTIFICATION:
The current deadline to file petitions would prevent observant Jewish
candidates from filing and interfere with seders, as it overlaps with
the first day of Passover. This act would shift the filing deadline for
this year, ensuring New Yorkers of all faiths can participate equally in
the electoral process.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill would take effect immediately and expire on December 31, 2023.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5057--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES, WALKER, DINOWITZ, CHANDLER-WATERMAN,
EICHENSTEIN, GIBBS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI, LAVINE, LEE, PAULIN, PHEF-
FER AMATO, RAGA, D. ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, SEAWRIGHT, SEPTIMO, SIMONE,
ZACCARO, RA, BRAUNSTEIN, KELLES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, STERN,
LEVENBERG, GLICK, SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the dates to file a
designating petition; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6-158 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision one of this
4 section, for the year two thousand twenty-three, such designating peti-
5 tion required to be filed by such subdivision shall be filed not earlier
6 than the thirteenth Monday before, and not later than the twelfth Monday
7 preceding the primary election.
8 § 2. Section 6-134 of the election law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
10 4-a. Notwithstanding the time fixed in subdivision four of this
11 section, for the year two thousand twenty-three, a signature made earli-
12 er than forty-one days before the last day to file designating petitions
13 for the primary election, or a signature made later than the twelfth
14 Thursday preceding the primary election, shall not be counted.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
16 31, 2023 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
17 repealed.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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