Bill Text: NY S06532 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that any change of enrollment after February fourteenth shall take effect seven days after the succeeding June primary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-26 - SIGNED CHAP.316 [S06532 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6532

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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] February four-
     6  teenth shall [be deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which  shall  not
     7  be  opened until the first Tuesday following such general election. Such
     8  change of enrollment shall be then removed and entered  as  provided  in
     9  this  article]  take  effect immediately. Any change of enrollment after
    10  such date shall  take  effect  seven  days  after  the  succeeding  June
    11  primary.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-604 of the election law, as amended by
    13  chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    14    1.  The  board  of elections shall also cause to be published for each
    15  election district a complete list  of  the  registered  voters  of  each
    16  election  district.  Such  list  shall,  in  addition to the information
    17  required for registration lists, include the party  enrollment  of  each
    18  voter.  At  least  as  many copies of such list shall be prepared as the
    19  required minimum number of registration lists.
    20    Lists for all the election districts in a ward  or  assembly  district
    21  may  be  bound together in one volume. The board of elections shall also
    22  cause to be published a complete list of names and  residence  addresses
    23  of  the registered voters, including the party enrollment of each voter,
    24  for each town and city over which the board has jurisdiction. The  names
    25  for each town and city may be arranged according to street and number or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  alphabetically.  Such  lists shall be published before the [first] twen-
     2  ty-first day of February. The board shall keep at least five copies  for
     3  public  inspection  at  each  main office or branch office of the board.
     4  Surplus  copies of the lists shall be sold at a charge not exceeding the
     5  cost of publication.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.