NY State Senate Bill 2017-S3092

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Jan 03, 2018	referred to elections
Jan 19, 2017	referred to elections

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2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10840
Current Committee:: Senate Elections
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§4-104 & 4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S2003, A3430, A9386
2011-2012: S1851, A2162
2013-2014: S888, A1116
2015-2016: S1412, A2806
2019-2020: S4378, A5661
2021-2022: S4658, A454
2023-2024: S5693

2017-S3092 (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-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S3092

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the election law, in relation to the
boundaries of election districts and the designation of polling places


 PURPOSE :

This bill would provide that election districts shall not be drawn in
such a way that they are partly on and partly off a college or
university campus or other contiguous college or university property
with 300 or more registered voters, excluding inactive voters. It
would also require that the poll sites for election districts serving
such concentrations of college or university voters shall be on the
campus or college or university property, or at a site approved by the
college or university.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section one of the bill amends section 4-104 of the election law by
adding a new subdivision 5-a to provide that whenever 300 or more
registered voters (excluding registrants in inactive status) are
registered on a contiguous college or university property the polling
place for such voters shall be on the property or at a location
approved by the college or university.

Section two of the bill amends paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section
4-100 of the election law to add contiguous properties of colleges and
universities with 300 or more registered voters. (excluding
registrants in inactive status) to the list of geographic areas that
cannot be partly in and partly out of an election district.

Section three of the bill sets forth the effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

This bill would provide college and university campuses and other
college and university properties with large concentrations of voters
with their own election districts and their own poll sites, in
recognition of the fact that requiring residents of colleges and
universities to vote at sites remote from their campuses or requiring
voters unaffiliated with the colleges and universities to vote on
campuses can present unnecessary obstacles to voting.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-16: S.1412A - Amend and Recommit to Elections
2013-14: S.888A - Referred to Elections
2011-12: S.1851A/A.2162A - Died in Elections
2009-10: S.2003A - PASSED SENATE

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Minimal.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on January 1, 2020.

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3092
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  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
 clearly visible to any person without the need to use any  technical  or
 mechanical device. An election district shall contain not more than nine
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD01452-01-7

 S. 3092                             2
 
 hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status) or,
 with the approval of the county board of elections, not more than eleven
 hundred  fifty  registrants  (excluding registrants in inactive status),
 but  any  election  district  may  be divided for the convenience of the
 voters.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.

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Senate Bill S3092

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

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2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Kevin S. Parker

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

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Michael Gianaris

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3092 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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