Bill Text: NY S06163 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the effectiveness of providing uniform polling hours during primary elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-30 - SIGNED CHAP.441 [S06163 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06163-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6163

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 21, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend part BBB of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019 amending  the
          election law relating to providing uniform polling hours during prima-
          ry elections, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2 of part BBB of chapter 55 of the  laws  of  2019,
     2  amending  the  election  law relating to providing uniform polling hours
     3  during primary elections, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January after it shall
     5  have become a law and shall apply to any election held  [120]  115  days
     6  after.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11866-01-9
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