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Mar 13, 2020 |
opinion referred to judiciary |
Feb 14, 2020 |
to attorney-general for opinion |
Feb 07, 2019 |
opinion referred to judiciary |
Jan 15, 2019 |
delivered to secretary of state |
Jan 14, 2019 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.6 substituted for a777 referred to judiciary delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.3 reported and committed to rules |
Jan 11, 2019 |
to attorney-general for opinion |
Jan 10, 2019 |
referred to judiciary |
Senate Bill S1048
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 12th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D) 36th Senate District
(D) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) 46th Senate District
2019-S1048 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A777
- Current Committee:
- Senate Judiciary
- Law Section:
- Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
- Laws Affected:
- Amd Art 2 §5, Constn
- Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
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S1048, A777
2019-S1048 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1048 SPONSOR: GIANARIS TITLE OF BILL: CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 5 of article 2 of the constitution, in relation to the ten day advance registration requirement PURPOSE: This concurrent resolution to amend the constitution is one of many changes necessary in the state to improve voter turnout. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This concurrent resolution amends section 5 of article 2 of the consti- tution to eliminate the ten day advance voter registration requirement. JUSTIFICATION:
2019-S1048 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1048 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, LIU, MARTINEZ, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MONTGOMERY, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 5 of article 2 of the constitution, in relation to the ten day advance registration requirement Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 5 of arti- cle 2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows: § 5. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citi- zens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters[; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election]. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for three months previous to the time of such election. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD89048-01-9
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