Bill Text: NY S00852 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the accessibility of congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps in downloadable digital file formats compatible with geographic information (GIS) software.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - SIGNED CHAP.89 [S00852 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00852-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           852

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  the  accessibility  of
          congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph e of  subdivision  5  of  section  4-102  of  the
     2  election  law,  as  added  by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the
     3  election law relating to the accessibility of congressional, senatorial,
     4  assembly and election district maps, as proposed  in  legislative  bills
     5  numbers S.  4591-A and A. 831-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    e.  Copies  of  such  maps  shall be posted on the board of elections'
     7  website. In addition, each board  of  elections  shall  make  such  maps
     8  available in [a downloadable Shapefile format] downloadable digital file
     9  formats  compatible  with  geographic information system (GIS) software,
    10  such as shapefile, geodatabase, KML, or other similar vector  based  GIS
    11  file types.
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    13  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the election law relat-
    14  ing to the accessibility  of  congressional,  senatorial,  assembly  and
    15  election  district  maps,  as  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S.
    16  4591-A and A.  831-A, takes effect.




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