Bill Text: NY A00112 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to indicating the placement of ballot proposals.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-5)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-24 - signed chap.409 [A00112 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00112-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 112--A Cal. No. 123 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, SANTABARBARA, PAULIN, NIOU, GALEF, SEAWRIGHT, BLAKE, JAFFEE, MONTESANO, CROUCH, BYRNE, GUNTHER, RIVERA, GOTTFRIED, DAVILA, WEPRIN, GLICK, D'URSO, JACOBSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, LUPARDO, B. MILLER, M. L. MILLER, SIMON, THIELE, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to ballot proposals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7-110 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 647 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 7-110. Ballots; form for ballot proposals. Ballot proposals shall 4 appear on the voting machine or ballot in a separate section. At the 5 left of, or below or above, each proposal shall appear two voting levers 6 or two voting squares, each at least one-half inch square. Next to the 7 first lever or square shall be printed the word "Yes," and next to the 8 second lever or square shall be printed the word "No." The proposals 9 shall be numbered consecutively on the voting machine or ballot. The 10 number of each proposal shall appear in front of its designation as an 11 amendment, proposition or question in the following form: "Proposal 12 one, an amendment; proposal two, a proposition; proposal three, a ques- 13 tion". If the ballot proposal section appears on the ballot face oppo- 14 site the candidates, a ballot instruction in a format provided by the 15 state board of elections, which may include a graphic arrow, shall indi- 16 cate the ballot is two-sided. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth of December next 18 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01045-02-9