Bill Text: NY A04238 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the use of voting systems by municipalities; provides for the determination of actual expenses of the board.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A04238 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04238-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4238

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, GALEF, JACOBSON, BYRNE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to the 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 of January next succeed-
    17  ing 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.
                                                                   LBD01089-01-1