Bill Text: NY S04611 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Provides that any plan of apportionment relating to the division of a county, except a county wholly contained within a city, into districts for the purpose of apportionment or reapportionment of members of its local legislative body shall be subject to federal and state constitutional requirements; further provides for standards to be followed for such plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-06 - PRINT NUMBER 4611A [S04611 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04611-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Provides that any plan of apportionment relating to the division of a county, except a county wholly contained within a city, into districts for the purpose of apportionment or reapportionment of members of its local legislative body shall be subject to federal and state constitutional requirements; further provides for standards to be followed for such plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-06 - PRINT NUMBER 4611A [S04611 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04611-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4611 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the municipal home rule law, in relation to the division of a county into districts for the apportionment of members of its local legislative body The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph g of subdivision 3 of section 34 of the munici- 2 pal home rule law is relettered paragraph h and a new paragraph g is 3 added to read as follows: 4 g. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or of 5 any other general, special, or local law, or any code, ordinance, char- 6 ter, rule, or regulation, which relates to the division of any county 7 except a county wholly contained within a city, into districts for the 8 purpose of the apportionment or reapportionment of members of its local 9 legislative body pursuant to this chapter, subject to federal and state 10 constitutional requirements; 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03710-01-9