| Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2014 | committed to rules |
| Feb 26, 2014 | advanced to third reading |
| Feb 11, 2014 | 2nd report cal. |
| Feb 10, 2014 | 1st report cal.153 |
| Jan 08, 2014 | referred to elections |
| Jun 21, 2013 | committed to rules |
| Apr 24, 2013 | advanced to third reading |
| Apr 23, 2013 | 2nd report cal. |
| Apr 22, 2013 | 1st report cal.369 |
| Jan 31, 2013 | referred to elections |
senate Bill S3285
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Thomas F. O'Mara
(R, C) 58th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee
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William J. Larkin, Jr.
(R, C) 0 Senate District
S3285 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A6856
- Current Committee:
- Senate Rules
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §4-100, El L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012: S7466, A10434
2015-2016: S4560, S7072, A4189
2017-2018: S2794, A5576
2019-2020: S546, A6093
2021-2022: S6855, A7478
S3285 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3285 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections PURPOSE OF THE BILL: This bill would raise the election district registrant enrollment from a maximum of 1,150 registrants to 3,000. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill would amend Election Law § 4-100(3) (a) revises the definition of an "election districts' to expand its maximum registrants from eleven hundred fifty to three thousand. Section 2 of the bill provides for an immediate effective date. JUSTIFICATION: Upon enactment this legislation would raise the limit of voters allowed in every election district from 1,150 voters to 3,000. The current election district registrant enrollment limits were prescribed based on the fact that the old lever voter machines were not capable of handling more than 1,000 votes per election; thus a strict limit of 1,150 voters per district was necessary. The new optical scanners will read and hold up to approximately 4,000 ballots/voters per machine. Therefore, this change in the law aims to serve as mandate relief to municipalities by allowing them to
S3285 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3285
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 31, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. O'MARA, LARKIN -- 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 increasing the number
of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of
the county board of elections
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. 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, or 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 mentioned in this paragraph,
must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character-
istics 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] THREE THOUSAND
registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
district may be divided for the convenience of the 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.
LBD08536-01-3
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