NY State Senate Bill S2003A

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 28, 2010	referred to election law returned to assembly repassed senate
Jun 22, 2010	amended on third reading (t) 2003a
Jun 22, 2010	vote reconsidered - restored to third reading returned to senate recalled from assembly
Jun 21, 2010	recommitted to election law substitution reconsidered
Jun 16, 2010	ordered to third reading cal.766 substituted for a9386
Jun 14, 2010	referred to election law delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 07, 2010	advanced to third reading
Jun 03, 2010	2nd report cal.
Jun 02, 2010	1st report cal.706
May 11, 2010	reported and committed to codes
Jan 06, 2010	referred to elections
Jul 16, 2009	committed to rules
Jun 04, 2009	advanced to third reading
Jun 03, 2009	2nd report cal.
Jun 02, 2009	1st report cal.565
May 19, 2009	reported and committed to codes
Feb 10, 2009	referred to elections

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S2003 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9386
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§4-104 & 4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S1851, A2162
2013-2014: S888, A1116
2015-2016: S1412, A2806
2017-2018: S3092, A5949, A10840
2019-2020: S4378, A5661
2021-2022: S4658, A454
2023-2024: S5693

S2003 - Summary

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

S2003 - Sponsor Memo

 BILL NUMBER:  S2003

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the election law, in relation to the
designation of polling places

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

Polling place designations should be readily accessible to the voters
in an election district. This bill would ensure that residents of
college campuses are not faced with unnecessary barriers in exercising
their right to vote by providing that where the majority of voters
eligible to vote in an election district reside on a college campus,
the polling place designated for that district be on such Campus.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section one amends Section 4-104 of the election law by adding a new
subdivision 5-a to provide that where the majority of voters eligible
to vote in an election district reside on a college Campus, the
polling place designated for that district be on such campus.

 EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THE BILL WILL ALTER :

This bill amends the election law to provide that where the majority
of voters eligible to vote in an election district reside on a college
campus, the polling place designated for that district be on such

campus.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Polling place designations should be readily accessible to the voters
in an election district. This bill would ensure that residents of
college campuses are not faced with unnecessary barriers in exercising
their right to vote by providing that where the majority of voters
eligible to vote in an election district reside on a college campus
the polling place designated for that district be on such campus.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

A.7388 of 2003-2004.
A.352 of 2005-2006.
A.1539/S.3706 of 2007-2008

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
First of January next succeeding the date it become law.

S2003 - Bill Text download pdf

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2003

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- 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  the  designation  of
  polling places

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 4-104 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
  5-A.  WHENEVER  THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN AN ELECTION
DISTRICT RESIDE ON A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY  CAMPUS,  THE  POLLING  PLACE
DESIGNATED FOR ANY SUCH DISTRICT SHALL BE ON THAT CAMPUS.
  S 2.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.







 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03295-01-9

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S2003A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9386
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§4-104 & 4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S1851, A2162
2013-2014: S888, A1116
2015-2016: S1412, A2806
2017-2018: S3092, A5949, A10840
2019-2020: S4378, A5661
2021-2022: S4658, A454
2023-2024: S5693

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Summary

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2003A

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the election law, in relation to the boundaries of election
districts and the designation of polling
places

PURPOSE:
This bill would provide that election districts shall not be drawn in
such a way that they are partly on and partly off a college or
university campus or other contiguous college or university property
with 300 or more registered voters, excluding inactive voters. It
would also require that the poll sites for election districts serving
such concentrations of college or university voters shall be on the
campus or college or university property, or at a site approved by
the college or university.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one of the bill amends section 4-104 of the election law by
adding a new subdivision 5-a to provide that whenever 300 or more
registered voters (excluding registrants in inactive status) are
registered on a contiguous college or university property the polling
place for such voters shall be on the property or at a location
approved by the college or university.

Section two of the bill amends paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section
4-100 of the election law to add contiguous properties of colleges
and universities with 300 or more registered voters (excluding
registrants in inactive status) to the list of geographic areas that
cannot be partly in and partly out of an election district.

Section three of the bill sets forth the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
This bill would provide college and university campuses and other
college and university properties with large concentrations of voters
with their own election districts and their own poll sites, in
recognition of the fact that requiring residents of colleges and
universities to vote at sites remote from their campuses or requiring
voters unaffiliated with the colleges and universities to vote on
campuses can present unnecessary obstacles to voting.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2009: A03430 (Bradley) - Third Reading
2008: A01539 (Bradley) - Third Reading
2007: A01539 (Bradley) - Third Reading
2006: A00352 (Bradley) - Third Reading
2005: A00352 (Bradley) - Third Reading
2004: A07388 (Bradley) - Third Reading
2003: A07388 (Bradley) - Election Law

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Minimal

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on January 1, 2012.

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 2003--A
    Cal. No. 706

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced   by  Sens.  OPPENHEIMER,  DIAZ,  KRUEGER,  PARKER,  SAMPSON,
  SCHNEIDERMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
  committed to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted to the  Commit-
  tee  on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported
  favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on  Codes
  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
  report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
  the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,
  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
  third reading

AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  the  boundaries  of
  election districts and the designation of polling places

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 4-104 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
  5-A.  WHENEVER  A  CONTIGUOUS  PROPERTY  OF  A  COLLEGE  OR UNIVERSITY
CONTAINS THREE HUNDRED OR MORE  REGISTRANTS  (EXCLUDING  REGISTRANTS  IN
INACTIVE  STATUS)  WHO  ARE  REGISTERED  TO  VOTE  AT AN ADDRESS ON SUCH
CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY, THE POLLING PLACE DESIGNATED FOR  SUCH  REGISTRANTS
SHALL  BE  ON  SUCH CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY OR AT A LOCATION APPROVED BY THE
COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.
  S 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section  4-100  of  the  election
law,  as  amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
as follows:
  a. Each election district shall be in compact  form  and  may  not  be
partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
five  thousand  or  more  inhabitants and is wholly within one town, THE
CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY OF A COLLEGE  OR  UNIVERSITY  WHICH  CONTAINS  THREE
HUNDRED  OR  MORE REGISTRANTS (EXCLUDING REGISTRANTS IN INACTIVE STATUS)
WHO ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE AT AN ADDRESS ON SUCH CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY, or

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

                                                           LBD03295-03-0

S. 2003--A                          2

a county legislative, assembly, senatorial  or  congressional  district.
Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
boundaries,  other  than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
boundaries  of  those  political  subdivisions AND COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY
PROPERTIES mentioned in this paragraph, must be streets,  rivers,  rail-
road lines or other permanent characteristics of the landscape which are
clearly  visible  to any person without the need to use any technical or
mechanical device. An election district shall contain not more than nine
hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status) or,
with the approval of the county board of elections, not more than eleven
hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants  in  inactive  status),
but  any  election  district  may  be divided for the convenience of the
voters.
  S 3.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2012.

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Jun 28, 2010 - floor Vote

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Jun 14, 2010 - floor Vote

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Jun 2, 2010 - Codes committee Vote

Committee Vote: Jun 2, 2010

May 11, 2010 - Elections committee Vote

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Jun 2, 2009 - Codes committee Vote

Committee Vote: Jun 2, 2009

Bill Amendments

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S2003 - Details

S2003 - Summary

S2003 - Sponsor Memo

S2003 - Bill Text download pdf

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S2003A (ACTIVE) - Details

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Summary

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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May 11, 2010 - Elections committee Vote

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Jun 2, 2009 - Codes committee Vote

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S2003 - Details

S2003 - Summary

S2003 - Sponsor Memo

S2003 - Bill Text download pdf

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S2003A (ACTIVE) - Details

S2003A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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