Assembly Bill A5949

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Makes provisions regarding the designation of polling places on college campuses

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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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2017-A5949 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3092
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4-104 & 4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3430, A9386, S2003
2011-2012: A2162, S1851
2013-2014: A1116, S888
2015-2016: A2806, S1412
2019-2020: A5661, S4378
2021-2022: A454, S4658
2023-2024: S5693
2025-2026: S4136

2017-A5949 (ACTIVE) - 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.

2017-A5949 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5949
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. KAVANAGH, CAHILL, JAFFEE, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED,
   COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, PEOPLES-STOKES, GALEF, BUCHWALD --  Multi-Sponsored
   by  -- M.   of A. ABINANTI, FARRELL, GLICK, LIFTON, LUPARDO, TITONE --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 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.
   § 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
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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