assembly Bill A5576

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections

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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 20, 2018 referred to elections
delivered to senate
passed assembly
Jan 03, 2018 ordered to third reading cal.397
returned to assembly
died in senate
May 03, 2017 referred to elections
delivered to senate
passed assembly
Apr 27, 2017 advanced to third reading cal.223
Apr 26, 2017 reported
Feb 10, 2017 referred to election law

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A5576 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2794
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4-100 & 2-104, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10434, S7466
2013-2014: A6856, S3285
2015-2016: A4189, S4560, S7072
2019-2020: A6093, S546
2021-2022: A7478, S6855

A5576 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.

A5576 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5576

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2017
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUSICK,  ABINANTI,  WEPRIN,  GALEF, SKOUFIS,
  KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

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.
  § 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:
  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

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