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recommit, enacting clause stricken |
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Senate Bill S4560
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Stricken
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
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Votes
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2015-S4560 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S4560 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4560
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to
increasing the number of registrants an election district may contain
with the approval of the county board of elections
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would raise the election
district registrant enrollment from a maximum of 1,150 registrants to
3,000.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 of the bill would amend Election Law § 4-100(3) (a) revises
the definition of an "election districts' to expand its maximum
registrants from eleven hundred fifty to three thousand.
Section 2 of the bill provides for an immediate effective date.
JUSTIFICATION: Upon enactment this legislation would raise the limit
of voters allowed in every election district from 1,150 voters to
3,000. The current election district registrant enrollment limits were
prescribed based on the fact that the old lever voter machines were
not capable of handling more than 1,000 votes per election; thus a
strict limit of 1,150 voters per district was necessary. The new
optical scanners will read and hold up to approximately 4,000
ballots/voters per machine. Therefore, this change in the law aims to
2015-S4560 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4560
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 27, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number
of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of
the county board of elections
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 4-100 of the
election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended
to read as follows:
a. Each election district shall be in compact form and may not be
partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one town, or a
county legislative, assembly, senatorial or congressional district.
Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
boundaries of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph,
must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character-
istics of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without
the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
shall contain not more than nine hundred fifty registrants (excluding
registrants in inactive status) or, with the approval of the county
board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred fifty] THREE THOUSAND
registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08027-01-5
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