Assembly Bill A1426

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires board of elections to deliver list of "military voters" registered to school board elections

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A1426 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง5-612, El L

2009-A1426 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires board of elections to deliver list of "military voters" registered to school board elections.

2009-A1426 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1426

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Election Law

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to military voters

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-612  of  the  election  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  200  of  the  laws  of 1996, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. Whenever a school district meeting or election  is  scheduled,  the
board  of elections for the appropriate county or counties shall deliver
the registration lists, indicating on such list, or on a separate accom-
panying list, the names of those voters whose  registration  record  has
been  marked  "permanently  disabled", THE NAMES OF THOSE VOTERS WHO ARE
REGISTERED AS "MILITARY VOTERS" and, on a  separate  accompanying  list,
the  names  of voters in inactive status who shall be challenged if they
appear at the polls to vote, for the appropriate election  districts  or
those  portions  of  the  election  districts  encompassing  the  school
district to the appropriate officials of such school district as soon as
possible upon request of the appropriate officials, but  no  later  than
the  thirty  days  immediately  prior  to the regularly scheduled school
district election, provided further, that such board of elections  shall
deliver  no  later  than  ten days prior to each such special or regular
school district election supplemental registration lists containing  the
names  of  those  voters who have registered after delivery of the first
registration lists and who are eligible to vote in such elections, indi-
cating on such list or on a separate  accompanying  list  the  names  of
those  voters  whose  registration  record  has been marked "permanently
disabled" AND THE NAMES OF THOSE  VOTERS  WHO  REGISTERED  AS  "MILITARY
VOTERS".
  S 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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