Assembly Actions -
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Apr 02, 2010 |
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Assembly Bill A10477
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MILLMAN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A10477 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Election Law
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §9-212, El l
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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A1445
2009-A10477 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:A10477 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to determinations by coun- ty canvassing boards PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would provide mandate relief to counties by eliminating the requirement that boards of elections publish the results of an election in the newspaper. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill amends subdivisions 2 and 3 of election law 9-212 to eliminate the requirement that boards of elections publish the results of an election in the newspaper. Section 2 of the bill is the effective date. JUSTIFICATION: Election law § 9-212 requires only some local boards of elections to publish election results in a newspaper while exempting other local boards of elections from this requirement. Specifically, the boards of elections in the city of New York and in Nassau, Orange and Westchester counties do not have to publish election results. This unfunded mandate imposes a financial hardship on some counties but not others. Given the wide use of the internet by boards of elections, and the common practice
2009-A10477 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10477 I N A S S E M B L Y April 2, 2010 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MILLMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to determinations by coun- ty canvassing boards THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 9-212 of the election law, as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1990, are amended to read as follows: 2. All such determinations shall be in writing and signed by the members of the canvassing board or a majority of them and filed and recorded in the office of the board of elections. [Except in the city of New York and in the counties of Nassau, Orange and Westchester, the board of elections shall cause a copy of such determinations, and of the statements filed in its office upon which such determinations were based, to be published once in each of the newspapers designated to publish election notices and the official canvass. The statement of canvass to be published, however, shall not give the vote by election districts but shall contain only the total vote for a person, or the total vote for and the total vote against a ballot proposal, cast within the county, or within the portion thereof, if any, in which an office is filled or ballot proposal is decided by the voters if the canvass of the vote thereon devolves upon the county board of canvassers.] Such totals shall be expressed in arabic numerals. 3. The board of elections shall prepare and forthwith transmit to each person determined by the canvassing board to have been elected a certi- fied statement, naming the office to which such canvassing board has declared him OR HER elected. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16727-01-0
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