Bill Text: NY A06540 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-11-08 - SIGNED CHAP.471 [A06540 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06540-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6540 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing polling plac- es for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2602 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 171 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. Notwithstanding any provisions of article forty-one of this chapter 5 to the contrary, the polls of such annual and special district meetings 6 shall be open during such consecutive hours, not less than nine, begin- 7 ning not earlier than [seven] six o'clock in the forenoon, and two of 8 which hours shall be after six o'clock in the evening, as the board of 9 education shall by resolution determine. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 11 elections occurring on and after such effective date. Effective imme- 12 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 13 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 14 authorized to be made on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10188-01-9
