Bill Text: NY A08393 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8393 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to voter notification of special elections; provides such notice be posted on the board of elections website at least two weeks prior to such election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-18 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [A08393 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08393-Amended.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8393--B
                                                                   R. R. 163
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law -- recommitted to the Committee on  Election
          Law   in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- reported and referred to the Committee  on  Rules
          -- ordered to a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the
          Senate,  recalled  from  the  Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the special order  of  third
          reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to voter notification of
          special elections
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 4-120 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 359 of the laws  of  1989,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  The board of elections shall publish once in each of the two weeks
     5  preceding a general election, or a special or village election conducted
     6  by the board of elections, a notice specifying the day of the  election,
     7  and  the public officers to be voted for within such county, or any part
     8  thereof at such election.   The board of elections  shall,  as  soon  as
     9  practicable,  but not less than two weeks prior to any special election,
    10  prominently display on its website the date and hours of  the  election,
    11  the  offices to be voted on in the county, part of a county, or the city
    12  of New York, and a link to any poll site information  or  poll  location
    13  tools,  where  available. If constitutional amendments, or questions are
    14  to be submitted to the voters of the state, the notice shall state  that
    15  fact  and that a copy of each such amendment or question may be obtained
    16  at the board of elections, by any voter.  Such publication shall  be  in
    17  two  newspapers  published  within  the county. If the county contains a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11880-04-8

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     1  city or cities, at least one of such newspapers shall  be  published  in
     2  the city, or the largest city, if there be more than one.
     3    In the case of a village election, such publication shall be made in a
     4  newspaper  of  general  circulation in such village and shall include an
     5  abstract of any proposition to be voted upon at such election.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.