Bill Text: NY A04815 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes cities with populations of more than one million persons and counties to enact a resolution, ordinance or regulation or adopt a local law, without referendum authorizing counties and certain cities to determine the classes of persons eligible to vote in local elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - held for consideration in election law [A04815 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04815-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4815
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 11, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY, STEVENSON, CASTRO, COOK, WEPRIN -- Multi-
         Sponsored by -- M. of A. HEASTIE, JACOBS -- read once and referred  to
         the Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to authorizing cities with
         populations  of  more than one million persons and counties to enact a
         resolution, ordinance or regulation or  adopt  a  local  law,  without
         referendum  authorizing  counties  and certain cities to determine the
         classes of persons eligible to vote in local elections
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
    2  Right to Vote Act".
    3    S 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-108 to read
    4  as follows:
    5    S 5-108. DETERMINATION OF QUALIFIED VOTERS; LOCAL OPTION.   1. A  CITY
    6  HAVING  A  POPULATION OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION PERSONS OR ANY COUNTY MAY
    7  ENACT A RESOLUTION, ORDINANCE OR REGULATION OR MAY  ADOPT,  THROUGH  ITS
    8  GOVERNING BODY, A LOCAL LAW, WITHOUT REFERENDUM, AUTHORIZING THE CITY OR
    9  COUNTY,  AS  APPLICABLE TO DETERMINE THE CLASSES OF PERSONS WHO MAY VOTE
   10  IN LOCAL ELECTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH EXISTING FEDERAL AND STATE LAW AND
   11  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   12    2. THE PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  ONLY  APPLY  TO  ELECTIONS
   13  CONDUCTED  (A)  WITHIN  THE  CITY  OF NEW YORK; AND (B) WITHIN ANY OTHER
   14  POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE WHERE  A  LOCAL  LAW,  ORDINANCE  OR
   15  RESOLUTION, PERMITTING ELECTIONS TO BE CONDUCTED THEREIN PURSUANT TO THE
   16  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION HAS BEEN DULY ENACTED OR ADOPTED.
   17    3. A PERSON WHO, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, IS QUALI-
   18  FIED    MAY REGISTER WITH THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF HIS OR HER COUNTY OF
   19  RESIDENCE AND VOTE IN A LOCAL ELECTION.
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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