Bill Text: NY A09357 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes persons in control of public school buildings to request the cancellation of the designation of such building as a polling place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-06 - referred to election law [A09357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09357-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9357

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to public school buildings
          designated as polling places

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 4-104 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 694 of the laws  of  1989,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  A building exempt from taxation shall be used whenever possible as
     5  a polling place if it is situated in the same or a  contiguous  election
     6  district,  and may contain as many distinctly separate polling places as
     7  public convenience may require. The expense, if any, incidental  to  its
     8  use,  shall be paid like the expense of other places of registration and
     9  voting. If a board or body empowered to designate polling places chooses
    10  a public school building for such purpose, the  board  or  agency  which
    11  controls  such  building  must  make  available  a room or rooms in such
    12  building which are suitable for registration and voting and which are as
    13  close as possible to a convenient entrance to  such  building  and  must
    14  make  available any such room or rooms which the board or body designat-
    15  ing such building  determines  are  accessible  to  physically  disabled
    16  voters as provided in subdivision one-a of this section. Notwithstanding
    17  the  provisions of any general, special or local law, if a board or body
    18  empowered to designate polling places chooses a publicly owned or leased
    19  building[, other than a public school building,] for such  purposes  the
    20  board or body which controls such building must make available a room or
    21  rooms  in  such  building which are suitable for registration and voting
    22  and which are as close as possible to  a  convenient  entrance  to  such
    23  building, and must make available any such room or rooms which the board
    24  or  body  designating  such  building determines are accessible to phys-
    25  ically disabled voters unless, not later than thirty days  after  notice
    26  of  its  designation  as  a polling place, the board or body controlling
    27  such building, files a written request for a cancellation of such desig-
    28  nation with the board or body empowered to designate polling  places  on

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14600-01-4
        A. 9357                             2

     1  such  form  as shall be provided by the board or body making such desig-
     2  nation. The board or body empowered to so designate shall, within twenty
     3  days after such request is filed, determine  whether  the  use  of  such
     4  building  as a polling place would unreasonably interfere with the usual
     5  activities conducted in such building and upon such  determination,  may
     6  cancel such designation.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.