Bill Text: NY A05988 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to giving notice to the public of upcoming elections via mailings, radio, and television.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - enacting clause stricken [A05988 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05988-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5988 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 21, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to giving notice to the public of upcoming elections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 3-211 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3-211. Boards of elections; notice of upcoming election. 1. For 4 each primary and general election, the board of elections shall mail to 5 at least one registered voter in each household a postcard which 6 contains information for the upcoming election that contains the date of 7 the election. The board shall send the postcards twice before the 8 election with the second mailing to be made no later than five days 9 before the election. 10 2. For the ten days before each primary and general election, the 11 state board of elections shall require all television and radio stations 12 using public airwaves or doing business within the state to inform their 13 audience at least four times each day between the hours of seven am and 14 eleven pm of the upcoming election. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09528-01-7