Bill Text: NY S04591 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps be made available on applicable board of elections' websites and in a downloadable Shapefile format.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-25 - SUBSTITUTED BY A831A [S04591 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04591-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4591--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the accessibility of
          congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  4-102 of the election law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
     3    e. Copies of such maps shall be posted  on  the  board  of  elections'
     4  website.  In  addition,  each  board  of  elections shall make such maps
     5  available in a downloadable Shapefile format.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02083-03-1