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                                  6002

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 19, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the election law
  relating to conducting the presidential primary, as proposed in legis-
  lative bill number S.5958, in relation to providing for  the  election
  of  delegates  to  a  national  party  convention  or a national party
  conference in 2016

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  2  and 7 of section 2-122-a of the election
law, as amended by section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2015,  amending
the  election  law  relating  to conducting the presidential primary, as
proposed in legislative bill number  S.5958,  are  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  If  the  rules  of  a  state  committee  adopted  pursuant  to the
provisions of this section provide for a primary election in  which  the
office  of  president of the United States appears on the ballot, desig-
nation of candidates for such office  shall  be  made  pursuant  to  the
provisions  of sections 6-100, 6-118, 6-122 (except that such candidates
need not be citizens of  New  York  but  only  citizens  of  the  United
States),  6-130,  6-132  (except  that references to a committee to fill
vacancies shall be deemed references to a committee to receive notices),
6-134, 6-144, the provisions with respect to  declinations  in  subdivi-
sions  one and two of section 6-146 (except that references to a commit-
tee to fill vacancies shall be  deemed  references  to  a  committee  to
receive  notices),  6-154,  and  subdivision  one and the provision with
respect to declinations in subdivision two of section 6-158 (except that
such candidates may decline such designations not  later  than  February
[sixteenth]  EIGHTH,  two  thousand  sixteen) of this chapter. The state
board of elections shall forthwith notify the appropriate county  boards
of elections of any such declination filed.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  7.  a.  The  rules  of  a  state  committee  adopted  pursuant  to the
provisions of this section may provide that no candidate for  the  posi-
tions  of  delegate  and  alternate delegate may appear on the ballot as
pledged to support a particular presidential candidate, or as  uncommit-
ted,  unless  the  name of such candidate for such position appears on a
certificate listing the names of those candidates for such positions who
have filed statements of candidacy for such positions with the secretary
of the state committee within the time prescribed by such rules and who,
if their statements of candidacy contained a  pledge  of  support  of  a
presidential  candidate,  were  not rejected by such presidential candi-
date. Such certificate shall also list the address and sex of each  such
candidate  for delegate and alternate delegate and the district in which
such candidate may appear on the ballot.
  b. Such certificate shall be filed by  the  secretary  of  such  state
committee,  with  the  board  of  elections  with  which the designating
petitions for such candidates for such  positions  are  required  to  be
filed,  not  later  than February [twenty-third] SIXTEENTH, two thousand
sixteen.
  c. In the event that a designating petition for  candidates  for  such
positions,  listed  as  pledged  to  support  a  presidential candidate,
contains the names of one or more persons who have not been permitted by
such presidential candidate to appear on the ballot as so pledged pursu-
ant to the provisions of this section, then the names of such candidates
shall not appear on the ballot but the names of other candidates on such
petition who have been permitted by the presidential candidate to appear
on the ballot shall be placed on the ballot provided  that  such  candi-
dates are otherwise eligible and that such petition is otherwise valid.
  d.  The  state board of elections shall send a copy of the certificate
required by section 4-110 of this chapter to the secretary of the  state
committee  of each party conducting a primary pursuant to the provisions
of this section not later than [March third] FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH,  two
thousand  sixteen. Every other board of elections with which designating
petitions for delegate and alternate delegate were filed pursuant to the
provisions of this section shall, not later than [March fourth] FEBRUARY
TWENTY-SIXTH, two thousand  sixteen,  send  a  list  of  the  names  and
addresses  of  those  candidates  who  will  appear on the ballot to the
secretary of each such state committee.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and the in  the  same
manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2015, amending the election law
relating to conducting the presidential primary, as proposed in legisla-
tive bill number S.5958, takes effect.