A 9338: Provides that a person who did not receive the nomination of a party in a caucus, may file a certificate of declination to a designation or nomination with respect to that office which the person had filed a designating petition of another party or had received the nomination after a primary or to a nomination of another party decided at a caucus within ten days after the certificate of nomination made pursuant to the caucus which the person had lost is filed.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9338 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY December 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to filing a declination to a designation or nomination The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section 6-146 of 2 the election law is designated paragraph (a) and a new paragraph (b) is 3 added to read as follows: 4 (b) A person having not received the nomination of a party which was 5 decided in a caucus, may file a certificate of declination to a desig- 6 nation or nomination, as the case may be, with respect to that office 7 which the person had filed a designating petition of another party or 8 had received the nomination after a primary or to a nomination of anoth- 9 er party decided at a caucus within ten days after the certificate of 10 nomination made pursuant to the caucus which the person had lost is 11 filed. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13989-04-5