Bill Text: NY A10294 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires choices of a question or proposal printed on a ballot include a brief phrase stating the effect of such choice should such choice win such question or proposal.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to election law [A10294 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A10294-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10294 IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring that choices of a question or proposal printed on a ballot include a brief phrase stating the effect of such choice should such choice win such question or proposal The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7-104 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 15-a to read as follows: 3 15-a. (a) When a question or proposal is included on the ballot, there 4 shall be the following with the description of the question or proposal 5 for each type of vote which can be chosen: 6 "A (type of vote) vote shall have the effect of (the positive or nega- 7 tive effects of the type of vote winning such question or proposal)." 8 (b) The language required by this subdivision shall be written by the 9 secretary of state and approved by the attorney general. Such language 10 shall be posted on the secretary of state's website after being approved 11 by the attorney general and before the date on which the official 12 ballots are sent to be printed. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 14 ing 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. LBD13944-01-1
