Bill Text: NY S09795 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the use of voting systems by towns, villages, school districts, fire, ambulance, water, sanitation, police and other special districts within a county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to election law [S09795 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09795-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9795

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 30, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  HINCHEY  --  (at  request  of  the  State Board of
          Elections) -- 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 use of voting systems
          by municipalities

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  3-224 of the election law, as amended by chapter
     2  180 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 3-224. Voting [machines] systems; use of by other than the board  of
     4  elections.    The  board  of  elections  [may] shall, whenever possible,
     5  permit towns, villages, school districts, fire, ambulance, water,  sani-
     6  tation,  police  and  other  special  districts within the county to use
     7  voting [machines] systems and other equipment owned by it and  used  for
     8  the  conduct of elections or for educational and instructional purposes,
     9  upon such [rental and other] terms and conditions as shall be  fixed  by
    10  [it]  the  board  of elections including a determination of costs not to
    11  exceed actual expenses of such board. Such board  may  similarly  permit
    12  the use of such [machines] systems by associations and organizations for
    13  the  conduct  of  elections  where  it judges the use of such [machines]
    14  systems for elections conducted by such associations  and  organizations
    15  will be in the public interest.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the first day of January next
    17  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.




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