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Assembly Bill A9222

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides that an attorney licensed to practice law in the state may serve as a poll watcher in any city or county in the state

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2021-A9222 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5039
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-500, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2866
2011-2012: S2348
2013-2014: A6776, S3373
2015-2016: A2824, S5982
2017-2018: A4984, S3405
2019-2020: A4044, S4552
2023-2024: A530, S6130

2021-A9222 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an attorney licensed to practice in the state may serve as a poll watcher in any city or county in the state.

2021-A9222 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9222
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. WEPRIN, OTIS, ABINANTI, GALEF, PAULIN -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to watchers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 8-500 of the election law, as
 amended by chapter 418 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  Each  watcher  must  be a qualified voter of the city or county in
 which he or she is to serve. No person shall be appointed or  act  as  a
 watcher  who is a candidate for any public office to be voted for by the
 voters of the election district in the same election in which the watch-
 er is to serve. Nothing  in  this  subdivision  shall  be  construed  as
 prohibiting  any  such  candidate  from visiting a polling place in such
 district on an election day while the polls are open, OR AN ATTORNEY WHO
 IS A NEW YORK STATE RESIDENT AND IS LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW THEREIN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09249-01-1

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