Bill Text: NY S06519 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a deadline for changing the location of a polling place for early voting by requiring that no location change may occur within forty-eight hours of the commencement of an early voting period unless there is a disaster or a declared state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-20 - SIGNED CHAP.480 [S06519 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06519-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6519--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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 establishing a deadline
          for changing the location of a polling place for an early voting peri-
          od

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section  8-600  of  the  election  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f)  If  the  location  of an early voting polling place as designated
     4  pursuant to paragraph (e) of this  subdivision  changes  prior  to  such
     5  early  voting  period, notice shall be provided to all affected eligible
     6  voters no later than five days prior to such voting period in accordance
     7  with the communication plan established pursuant to subdivision five  of
     8  this  section  or  as soon as practicable if such location change occurs
     9  within five days of  the  commencement  of  such  early  voting  period;
    10  provided,  however, no such location change may occur within forty-eight
    11  hours of such commencement unless there is any disaster within the mean-
    12  ing of section 3-108 of this chapter or a declared state of emergency by
    13  the governor or any court of competent jurisdiction in the county  where
    14  the polling place is located.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03100-02-3