Bill Text: NY A10430 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the New York state early voting fund which shall be used to fund all early voting initiatives within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-20 - referred to election law [A10430 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10430-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10430
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 20, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. ERRIGO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
          New York state early voting fund
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section
     2  99-bb to read as follows:
     3    § 99-bb. New York state early voting fund. 1. There is  hereby  estab-
     4  lished in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commission-
     5  er  of  taxation  and  finance  a fund to be known as the New York state
     6  early voting fund.
     7    2. Such fund shall consist of all monies appropriated to such fund.
     8    3. (a) Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature,
     9  shall be expended for the purpose of making payments  to  the  board  of
    10  elections of each county and the city of New York to reimburse any actu-
    11  al  costs incurred by such boards of elections to provide polling places
    12  for early voting, including the cost of staffing such polling places, in
    13  any general, primary, or special  election  in  which  early  voting  is
    14  required  by the election law. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund upon
    15  audit and warrant by the state  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or
    16  approved  by the state board of elections, or its duly designated repre-
    17  sentative, in the manner prescribed by law.
    18    (b) As often as  necessary,  the  co-chairs  of  the  state  board  of
    19  elections shall certify the amount such co-chairs have determined neces-
    20  sary  to  fund  estimated  payments from the New York state early voting
    21  fund. If such estimates exceed the amount of money appropriated for  the
    22  fund,  the comptroller shall, based upon such certification of the state
    23  board of elections and at the direction of the director of  the  budget,
    24  transfer  any additional amount required from monies in the general fund
    25  to the New York state early voting fund.
    26    4. Boards of elections seeking moneys  from  this  fund  shall  submit
    27  documentation detailing the costs described in subdivision three of this
    28  section in a manner prescribed by the state board of elections.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 10430                            2
     1    5.  The state board of elections and state comptroller shall issue any
     2  such rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this
     3  section.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
     6  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
     7  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
     8  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.