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Jan 08, 2020 | referred to elections returned to senate died in assembly |
Feb 27, 2019 | referred to election law delivered to assembly passed senate |
Feb 11, 2019 | advanced to third reading |
Feb 05, 2019 | 2nd report cal. |
Feb 04, 2019 | 1st report cal.100 |
Jan 09, 2019 | referred to elections |
senate Bill S546
Sponsored By
Fred Akshar
(R, C, IP, RFM) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee
- Introduced
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- On Floor Calendar
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- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
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S546 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A6093
- Current Committee:
- Senate Elections
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§4-100 & 2-104, El L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012: S7466, A10434
2013-2014: S3285, A6856
2015-2016: S4560, S7072, A4189
2017-2018: S2794, A5576
2021-2022: S6855, A7478
S546 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S546 REVISED MEMO 02/07/19 SPONSOR: AKSHAR TITLE OF BILL: 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 PURPOSE: This bill would raise the election district_ registrant enrollment from a maximum of 1,150 registrants to 2,000. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill would amend Election Law § 4-100(3) (a) revises the definition of an "election districts' to expand its maximum regis- trants from eleven hundred fifty to two thousand. Section 2 of the bill provides for an immediate effective date
S546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 546 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2019 ___________ 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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