Bill Text: NY S05052 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prevents municipalities from abridging the election law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S05052 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05052-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5052

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. LANZA, BORRELLO, MATTERA, OBERACKER, ORTT, PALUMBO,
          STEC, TEDISCO, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
          ed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  preventing  munici-
          palities from abridging the election law

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

     1    Section 1. Section 5-106 of the election law is amended by adding  two
     2  new subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows:
     3    7.  No  person  who does not have the right to register for or vote at
     4  any election under the provisions  of  this  chapter  and/or  the  state
     5  constitution  shall  have  the  right  to  register  for  or vote at any
     6  election granted to him or her by  a  county,  city,  town,  or  village
     7  through  any  action  including,  but not limited to, any amendment of a
     8  municipal charter or passage of any local law.
     9    8. No person shall have their right to register for  or  vote  at  any
    10  election abridged by a county, city, town, or village through any action
    11  including,  but  not limited to, any amendment of a municipal charter or
    12  passage of any local law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02047-01-3
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