NY State Senate Bill 2015-S7072

Senate Bill S7072

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections

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Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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Actions

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 17, 2016	committed to rules
May 11, 2016	advanced to third reading
May 10, 2016	2nd report cal.
May 09, 2016	1st report cal.734
Apr 27, 2016	print number 7072a
Apr 27, 2016	amend (t) and recommit to elections
Mar 22, 2016	referred to elections

Votes

- May 9, 2016 - Elections Committee Vote
  S7072
  
  7
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Elections Committee Vote: May 9, 2016
      
      aye (7)
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Comrie
      
      Dilan
      
      Gallivan
      
      Krueger
      
      Marchione
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Avella
      
      excused (1)
      
      Nozzolio

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2015-S7072 - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S7466
2013-2014: S3285
2017-2018: S2794
2019-2020: S546
2021-2022: S6855

2015-S7072 - Summary

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.

2015-S7072 - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7072 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7072

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 22, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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

2015-S7072A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S7466
2013-2014: S3285
2017-2018: S2794
2019-2020: S546
2021-2022: S6855

2015-S7072A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.

2015-S7072A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7072A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 7072--A

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 22, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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  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; authorizes increase of county committee

  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] TWO THOUSAND
registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  1. The county committee of each party  shall  be  constituted  by  the
election  in  each  election district within such county of at least two
members and of such additional members[, not in excess of two,]  as  the
rules  of  the  county  committee  of the party within the county or the
statement filed pursuant hereto may provide for such  district,  propor-

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

                                                           LBD08027-04-6

S. 7072--A                          2

tional  to  the  party  vote  in  the  district for governor at the last
preceding gubernatorial election, or in  case  the  boundaries  of  such
district  have been changed or a new district has been created since the
last  preceding  gubernatorial  election, proportional to the party vote
cast for member of assembly or in the event there was  no  election  for
member  of  assembly, then proportional to the number of enrolled voters
of such party in such district on  the  list  of  enrolled  voters  last
published  by  the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters in inactive
status. In a county in which no additional members are provided  for  by
the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
the  voting  power  of  each member shall be in proportion to such party
vote or, if the election  district  which  such  member  represents  was
created  or  changed  since  the  last  election for member of assembly,
proportional to such party enrollment. In a county in  which  additional
members  are  so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
ment in election districts within such county, each  member  shall  have
one  vote.  Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter
of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
or in the assembly district containing the election  district  in  which
such  member  is elected except that a member of a county committee who,
as a result of an alteration  of  assembly  district  lines,  no  longer
resides  within  such  assembly  district  may continue to serve for the
balance of the term to which he was elected.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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