Bill Text: NY S01485 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the number of early voting poll sites in certain cities and towns; requires, where practicable, that such sites shall be situated along public transportation routes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - PRINT NUMBER 1485A [S01485 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01485-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1485--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GAUGHRAN, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, COMRIE, KAPLAN, STAVISKY
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the  Committee  on  Elections  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
          Elections  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec. 8 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the number  of  polling
          sites for early voting in certain cities and towns

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
     2  election  law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) (i) The board of elections  shall  designate  polling  places  for
     5  early  voting,  which may include the offices of the board of elections,
     6  for persons to vote early pursuant to this title.
     7    (ii) In cities or towns with a population of  more  than  one  hundred
     8  thousand, but less than one million based on the latest federal decenni-
     9  al  census,  there  shall be at least one early voting polling place for
    10  every full increment of fifty thousand persons in such cities and  towns
    11  based  on  the  latest  federal decennial census; provided, however, the
    12  number of early voting polling places in each such city and  town  shall
    13  not  be  required to be greater than eleven, and to the extent practica-
    14  ble, if such cities or towns have  public  transportation  routes,  such
    15  polling places shall be situated along such transportation routes.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    17  manner as chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06622-03-2