Assembly Bill A4189A

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 4189--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. CUSICK, ABINANTI, WEPRIN, GALEF, SKOUFIS -- read
  once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --  recommitted  to
  the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
  2  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
  and recommitted to said committee

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; authorizes increase of county committee

  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]  TWO  THOUSAND
registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08027-02-6

              

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  1.  The  county  committee  of  each party shall be constituted by the
election in each election district within such county of  at  least  two
members  and  of such additional members[, not in excess of two,] as the
rules of the county committee of the party  within  the  county  or  the
statement  filed  pursuant hereto may provide for such district, propor-
tional to the party vote in  the  district  for  governor  at  the  last
preceding  gubernatorial  election,  or  in  case the boundaries of such
district have been changed or a new district has been created since  the
last  preceding  gubernatorial  election, proportional to the party vote
cast for member of assembly or in the event there was  no  election  for
member  of  assembly, then proportional to the number of enrolled voters
of such party in such district on  the  list  of  enrolled  voters  last
published  by  the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters in inactive
status. In a county in which no additional members are provided  for  by
the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
the  voting  power  of  each member shall be in proportion to such party
vote or, if the election  district  which  such  member  represents  was
created  or  changed  since  the  last  election for member of assembly,
proportional to such party enrollment. In a county in  which  additional
members  are  so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
ment in election districts within such county, each  member  shall  have
one  vote.  Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter
of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
or in the assembly district containing the election  district  in  which
such  member  is elected except that a member of a county committee who,
as a result of an alteration  of  assembly  district  lines,  no  longer
resides  within  such  assembly  district  may continue to serve for the
balance of the term to which he was elected.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.