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Assembly Bill A1205

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the county seat in Madison county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting

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2023-A1205 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6928
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-600, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9671, S8634
2025-2026: S7047

2023-A1205 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the county seat in Madison county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

2023-A1205 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1205
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county
   seat in Madison county to have at least one polling  place  designated
   for early voting
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
 election  law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (b) The largest city in the county or, if there  is  no  city  in  the
 county,  the  municipality  with  the  highest population in each county
 based on the latest federal decennial census,  or  the  county  seat  in
 Washington  county,  OR THE COUNTY SEAT IN MADISON COUNTY, shall have at
 least one polling place designated for early voting, and to  the  extent
 practicable  if  such  city  or  municipality  has public transportation
 routes, such polling place shall be situated along  such  transportation
 routes.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect July 1, 2023 and shall apply to any
 general, primary, run-off primary, or special election held thereafter.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01766-01-3

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