Bill Text: NY A08228 | 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 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-26 - SIGNED CHAP.316 [A08228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08228-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8228

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 7, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        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