Senate Bill S4009

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.

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Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2019-S4009 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6540
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2602, Ed L

2019-S4009 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.

2019-S4009 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4009 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4009
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing polling plac-
   es for school elections in city school districts of cities  with  less
   than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2602  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  171  of  the  laws  of 1996, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. Notwithstanding any provisions of article forty-one of this chapter
 to the contrary, the polls of such annual and special district  meetings
 shall  be open during such consecutive hours, not less than nine, begin-
 ning not earlier than [seven] SIX o'clock in the forenoon,  and  two  of
 which  hours  shall be after six o'clock in the evening, as the board of
 education shall by resolution determine.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
 elections  occurring  on  and after such effective date. Effective imme-
 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
 authorized to be made on or before such date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10188-01-9

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