Bill Text: NY A00830 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires a ".gov" domain name for websites maintained by a county or maintained by a board of elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-02 - enacting clause stricken [A00830 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00830-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         830--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law -- recommitted to the Committee on  Election
          Law   in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the county law, the municipal  home  rule  law  and  the
          election  law,  in  relation  to  websites maintained by a county or a
          board of elections

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

     1    Section  1.  The  county  law is amended by adding a new section 55 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 55. County websites. Any county which maintains a website shall  use
     4  a ".gov" domain name for such website.
     5    §  2.  The  municipal home rule law is amended by adding a new section
     6  35-a to read as follows:
     7    § 35-a. County websites. Any county operating under a  county  charter
     8  as  defined in section thirty-two of this part which maintains a website
     9  shall use a ".gov" domain name for such website.
    10    § 3. The election law is amended by adding a new section 3-228 to read
    11  as follows:
    12    § 3-228. Board of elections websites. Any  board  of  elections  which
    13  maintains a website shall use a ".gov" domain name for such website.
    14    §  4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    15  law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02133-02-1
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