Bill Text: NY A02036 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the election law, in relation to the hours for conducting voting in the city of New York

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to election law [A02036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02036-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2036
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 15, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MILLER
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
       AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the hours for conduct-
         ing voting in the city of New York
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 8-100 of the election law, as
    2  amended by chapter 335 of the laws  of  2000,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    2. Polls shall be open for voting during the following hours: a prima-
    5  ry  election from twelve o'clock noon until nine o'clock in the evening,
    6  except in the city of New York and  the  counties  of  Nassau,  Suffolk,
    7  Westchester,  Rockland,  Orange,  Putnam  and  Erie, and in such city or
    8  county from [six] SEVEN o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the
    9  evening; the general election from [six] SEVEN o'clock  in  the  morning
   10  until  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening; a special election called by the
   11  governor pursuant to the public officers law, and, except  as  otherwise
   12  provided  by  law, every other election, from [six] SEVEN o'clock in the
   13  morning until nine o'clock in the evening.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   15  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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