Bill Text: NY S01550 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of days permitted for early voting; permits early voting beginning on the seventeenth day prior to any general, primary, run-off primary or special election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01550 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01550-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1550

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to increasing  the  number
          of days permitted for early voting

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 8-600  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Beginning the [tenth] seventeenth day prior to any general, prima-
     4  ry, run-off primary pursuant to subdivision one of section 6-162 of this
     5  chapter or special election for any public or party position except  for
     6  such  an  election  held pursuant to title two of article six or article
     7  fifteen of this chapter, and ending on  and  including  the  second  day
     8  prior  to such general, primary, run-off primary or special election for
     9  such public office or party position, persons duly registered and eligi-
    10  ble to vote at such election shall be permitted to vote as  provided  in
    11  this  title.  The board of elections shall establish procedures, subject
    12  to approval of the state board of elections, to ensure that persons  who
    13  vote  during  the  early  voting  period  shall not be permitted to vote
    14  subsequently in the same election.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07963-01-1