Senate Bill S308

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "restore faith in voting act"

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S308 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7-200, 7-202, 7-203, 3-412 & 3-302, add §3-213, El L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S9192

2019-S308 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "restore faith in voting act"; relates to requiring the purchase of direct recording electronic machines which produce and retain a voter verified permanent paper record in the city of New York (Part A); relates to mandatory core curriculum and to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners, key staff of boards of elections and poll workers (Part B); and relates to establishing mobile operations voting equipment units (Part C).

2019-S308 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S308 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    308
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- 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 requiring the  purchase
   of  direct  recording  electronic  machines which produce and retain a
   voter verified permanent paper record in the city of  New  York  (Part
   A);  to  amend the election law, in relation to mandatory core curric-
   ulum; and to amend the election law, in relation to mandatory training
   curriculum  for  election  commissioners,  key  staff  of  boards   of
   elections and poll workers (Part B); and to amend the election law, in
   relation  to  establishing  mobile  operations  voting equipment units
   (Part C)
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act enacts into law major components of legislation
 which are necessary to enact the  restore  faith  in  voting  act.  Each
 component  is  wholly  contained  within  a  Part  identified as Parts A
 through C. The effective date for each  particular  provision  contained
 within  such  Part  is  set  forth in the last section of such Part. Any
 provision in any section contained within a Part, including  the  effec-
 tive date of the Part, which makes reference to a section "of this act",
 when  used in connection with that particular component, shall be deemed
 to mean and refer to the corresponding section of the Part in  which  it
 is found. Section four of this act sets forth the general effective date
 of this act.
   §  2.  Short  title.  This  act shall be known and may be cited as the
 "restore faith in voting act".
 
                                  PART A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02815-01-9
              

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