STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           558

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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  dollar
          value  of  items  that may legally be given or provided to any person,
          other than persons who are official representatives of  the  board  of
          elections  or  political  parties  and  committees and persons who are
          engaged as watchers, in a polling place without any identification  of
          the person or entity supplying such provisions

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

     1    Section 1. Section 17-140 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
     2  414 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  17-140.  Furnishing  money or entertainment to induce attendance at
     4  polls.  Any person who directly or indirectly by himself or through  any
     5  other person in connection with or in respect of any election during the
     6  hours of voting on a day of a general, special or primary election gives
     7  or  provides, or causes to be given or provided, or shall pay, wholly or
     8  in part, for any meat, drink, tobacco, refreshment or  provision  to  or
     9  for  any  person, other than persons who are official representatives of
    10  the board of elections or political parties and committees  and  persons
    11  who  are engaged as watchers, party representatives or workers assisting
    12  the candidate, except any [such meat,] drink, [tobacco,] refreshment  or
    13  provision  having a retail value of less than [one dollar] five dollars,
    14  which is given or provided to any person in a polling place without  any
    15  identification  of  the  person  or entity supplying such provisions, is
    16  guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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