Bill Text: NY S04378 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to ways and means [S04378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04378-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4378--A
            Cal. No. 1

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. PARKER, BRESLIN, GAUGHRAN, GIANARIS, LIU, MAY, MONT-
          GOMERY,  PERSAUD, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
          tee  on  Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to a
          third reading,  passed  by  Senate  and  delivered  to  the  Assembly,
          recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored to third reading, amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  the  boundaries  of
          election districts and the designation of polling places

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4-104 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
     3    5-a.  Whenever  a  contiguous  property  of  a  college  or university
     4  contains three hundred or more  registrants  (excluding  registrants  in
     5  inactive  status)  who  are  registered  to  vote  at an address on such
     6  contiguous property, the polling place designated for  such  registrants
     7  shall  be  on  such contiguous property or at a location approved by the
     8  college or university.
     9    § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section  4-100  of  the  election
    10  law,  as  amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
    11  as follows:
    12    a. Each election district shall be in compact  form  and  may  not  be
    13  partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
    14  five  thousand  or  more  inhabitants and is wholly within one town, the
    15  contiguous property of a college  or  university  which  contains  three
    16  hundred  or  more registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status)
    17  who are registered to vote at an address on such contiguous property, or
    18  a county legislative, assembly, senatorial  or  congressional  district.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 4378--A                          2

     1  Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
     2  boundaries,  other  than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
     3  boundaries of those political subdivisions  and  college  or  university
     4  properties  mentioned  in this paragraph, must be streets, rivers, rail-
     5  road lines or other permanent characteristics of the landscape which are
     6  clearly visible to any person without the need to use any  technical  or
     7  mechanical device. An election district shall contain not more than nine
     8  hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status) or,
     9  with the approval of the county board of elections, not more than eleven
    10  hundred  fifty  registrants  (excluding registrants in inactive status),
    11  but any election district may be divided  for  the  convenience  of  the
    12  voters.
    13    §  3.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the election
    14  law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended  to  read  as
    15  follows:
    16    (a)  The  board  of elections shall designate polling places for early
    17  voting, which may include the offices of the  board  of  elections,  for
    18  persons  to  vote early pursuant to this title. There shall be so desig-
    19  nated at least one early voting polling place for every  full  increment
    20  of  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however,
    21  the number of early voting polling places  in  a  county  shall  not  be
    22  required  to  be  greater than seven, and a county with fewer than fifty
    23  thousand voters shall have at least  one  early  voting  polling  place.
    24  Whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three
    25  hundred  or  more registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status)
    26  who are registered to vote at an address on  such  contiguous  property,
    27  such  contiguous  property  or  a  location  approved  by the college or
    28  university shall be designated as an early voting polling place.
    29    § 4.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.