Bill Text: NY A09923 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to ballot proposals.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-16 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A09923 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09923-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9923 IN ASSEMBLY February 23, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to ballot proposals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7-110 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 647 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 7-110. Ballots; form for ballot proposals. Ballot proposals shall 4 appear on the voting machine or ballot in a separate section. At the 5 left of, or below or above, each proposal shall appear two [voting6levers or two] voting ovals or squares[, each at least one-half inch7square]. Next to the first [lever or square] shall be printed the word 8 "Yes," and next to the second [lever or square] shall be printed the 9 word "No." The proposals shall be numbered consecutively on the voting 10 machine or ballot. The number of each proposal shall appear in front of 11 its designation as an amendment, proposition or question in the follow- 12 ing form: "Proposal one, an amendment; proposal two, a proposition; 13 proposal three, a question". If the ballot proposal section appears on 14 the ballot face opposite the candidates, a ballot instruction in a 15 format provided by the state board of elections, which may include a 16 graphic arrow, shall indicate the ballot is two-sided. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth of December next 18 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14767-01-8