Bill Text: NY S06422 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to change of enrollment by previously registered voters; when such change takes effect.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-13 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S06422 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06422-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6422

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 10, 2019
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to change of enrollment by
          previously registered voters

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 5-304 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 90 of the  laws  of  1991,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3. A change of enrollment received by the board of elections not later
     5  than the twenty-fifth day before the general election shall be deposited
     6  in  a  sealed  enrollment box, which shall not be opened until the first
     7  Tuesday following such general election. Such change of enrollment shall
     8  be then removed and entered as provided in this article; provided howev-
     9  er, in the year before a presidential election, if a  previously  regis-
    10  tered  voter  files a change of enrollment or a new enrollment after the
    11  twenty-fifth day before the general elections and no later than the  day
    12  before the first day to circulate a petition for the presidential prima-
    13  ry,  such change of enrollment or new enrollment shall take effect imme-
    14  diately.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13243-01-9
feedback