NY State Senate Bill S546

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
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

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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:: 2011-2012: S7466, A10434
2013-2014: S3285, A6856
2015-2016: S4560, S7072, A4189
2017-2018: S2794, A5576
2021-2022: S6855, A7478

S546 (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.

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

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Upon enactment this legislation would raise the limit of voters allowed
in every election district from 1,150 voters to 2,000. The current
election district registrant enrollment limits were prescribed based on
the fact that the old lever voter machines were not capable of handling
more than 1,000 votes per election; thus a strict limit of 1,150 voters
per district was necessary. The new optical scanners will read and hold
up to approximately 4,000 ballots/voters per machine. Therefore, this
change in the law aims to serve as mandate relief to municipalities by
allowing them to consolidate districts and reduce costs in many areas,
including:  hiring fewer election inspectors, fewer ballots to order;
and requiring less time testing ballots.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.2794 - Died in Rules;
S.7072A - Died in Rules
S.4560 - Died in Rules
S.3285 - Died in Rules

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill would take effect immediately.

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

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05564-01-9

S. 546                              2

rules of the county committee of the party  within  the  county  or  the
statement  filed  pursuant hereto may provide for such district, propor-
tional to the party vote in  the  district  for  governor  at  the  last
preceding  gubernatorial  election,  or  in  case the boundaries of such
district have been changed or a new district has been created since  the
last  preceding  gubernatorial  election, proportional to the party vote
cast for member of assembly or in the event there was  no  election  for
member  of  assembly, then proportional to the number of enrolled voters
of such party in such district on  the  list  of  enrolled  voters  last
published  by  the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters in inactive
status. In a county in which no additional members are provided  for  by
the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
the  voting  power  of  each member shall be in proportion to such party
vote or, if the election  district  which  such  member  represents  was
created  or  changed  since  the  last  election for member of assembly,
proportional to such party enrollment. In a county in  which  additional
members  are  so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
ment in election districts within such county, each  member  shall  have
one  vote.  Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter
of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
or in the assembly district containing the election  district  in  which
such  member  is elected except that a member of a county committee who,
as a result of an alteration  of  assembly  district  lines,  no  longer
resides  within  such  assembly  district  may continue to serve for the
balance of the term to which he was elected.
  § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

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S546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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