Bill Text: NY A09671 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the county seat in Madison county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - referred to election law [A09671 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09671-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9671

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county
          seat in Madison county to have at least one polling  place  designated
          for early voting

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
     2  election  law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (b) The largest city in the county or, if there  is  no  city  in  the
     5  county,  the  municipality  with  the  highest population in each county
     6  based on the latest federal decennial census,  or  the  county  seat  in
     7  Washington  county,  or the county seat in Madison county, shall have at
     8  least one polling place designated for early voting, and to  the  extent
     9  practicable  if  such  city  or  municipality  has public transportation
    10  routes, such polling place shall be situated along  such  transportation
    11  routes.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect July 1, 2022 and shall apply to any
    13  general, primary, run-off primary, or special election held  thereafter;
    14  provided,  however,  that  if  chapter 781 of the laws of 2021 shall not
    15  have taken effect on or before such date then section one  of  this  act
    16  shall  take effect on the same date and in the same manner as such chap-
    17  ter of the laws of 2021 takes effect.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15156-01-2