senate Bill S2794

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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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 20, 2018 committed to rules
May 02, 2018 advanced to third reading
May 01, 2018 2nd report cal.
Apr 30, 2018 1st report cal.887
Jan 03, 2018 referred to elections
Jun 21, 2017 committed to rules
May 03, 2017 advanced to third reading
May 02, 2017 2nd report cal.
May 01, 2017 1st report cal.679
Jan 17, 2017 referred to elections

Votes

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Apr 30, 2018 - Elections committee Vote

S2794
9
0
committee
9
Aye
0
Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Elections Committee Vote: Apr 30, 2018

May 1, 2017 - Elections committee Vote

S2794
8
1
committee
8
Aye
1
Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Elections Committee Vote: May 1, 2017

nay (1)

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S2794 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5576
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4-100 & 2-104, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7466, A10434
2013-2014: S3285, A6856
2015-2016: S4560, S7072, A4189
2019-2020: S546, A6093
2021-2022: S6855, A7478

S2794 (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.

S2794 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S2794 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


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

                                  2794

                       2017-2018 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 17, 2017
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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; 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.

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