Bill Text: NY S04348 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a joint report by the state board of education and state education department concerning the safety of students and staff at schools used as polling places for elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04348 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04348-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4348--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 21, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT  requiring  a  joint  report by the state board of elections and
         state education department concerning the safety of students and staff
         at schools used as polling places for elections
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  state  board  of  elections  and the state education
    2  department shall jointly  examine,  evaluate  and  make  recommendations
    3  concerning  the  safety of students and staff at schools used as polling
    4  places for elections.
    5    S 2. The state board of elections and/or the state  education  depart-
    6  ment  may  request  and  shall receive from any subdivision, department,
    7  board, bureau, commission, office, agency or  other  instrumentality  of
    8  the  state  or  of any political subdivision thereof such assistance and
    9  data as it deems necessary or desirable to effectuate the  purposes  set
   10  forth in this act.
   11    S  3.  Within  six months of the effective date of this act, the state
   12  board of elections and the state education  department  shall  submit  a
   13  joint  report  of their findings, conclusions and recommendations to the
   14  governor and the legislature, and shall submit  with  such  report  such
   15  regulatory and legislative proposals as they deem necessary to implement
   16  their recommendations.
   17    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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