Bill Text: NY S04865 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a ".gov" domain name for websites maintained by a board of elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04865 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04865-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4865

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 websites maintained  by
          a board of elections

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

     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  3-228
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3-228.  Board  of  elections websites. Any board of elections which
     4  maintains a website shall use a ".gov" domain name for such website.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
     6  law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02133-01-1