Assembly Bill A2338

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting certain public school buildings from being designated as early polling locations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A2338 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§8-600 & 4-104, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7554
2021-2022: A6076

2023-A2338 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts public school buildings with instructional space from being designated as early polling locations; allows school districts to decline school building designations as early polling locations.

2023-A2338 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2338
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STIRPE, WALLACE -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  exempting  certain
   public  school  buildings  from  being  designated  as  early  polling
   locations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  8-600 of the election law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
   (I) NO PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING WITH INSTRUCTIONAL SPACE SHALL BE DESIG-
 NATED AS AN EARLY POLLING LOCATION.
   § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 4-104 of the election law, as amended by
 chapter 694 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
   3. A building exempt from taxation shall be used whenever possible  as
 a  polling  place if it is situated in the same or a contiguous election
 district, and may contain as many distinctly separate polling places  as
 public  convenience  may require. The expense, if any, incidental to its
 use, shall be paid like the expense of other places of registration  and
 voting. If a board or body empowered to designate polling places chooses
 a  public  school  building  for such purpose, the board or agency which
 controls such building must make available  a  room  or  rooms  in  such
 building which are suitable for registration and voting and which are as
 close  as  possible  to  a convenient entrance to such building and must
 make available any such room or rooms which the board or body  designat-
 ing  such  building  determines  are  accessible  to physically disabled
 voters as provided in subdivision one-a.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS
 OF THIS SUBDIVISION, NO BOARD OR BODY  EMPOWERED  TO  DESIGNATE  POLLING
 PLACES SHALL DESIGNATE A PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING WITH INSTRUCTIONAL SPACE
 AS  AN  EARLY  POLLING  LOCATION, AND IF SUCH BOARD OR BODY DESIGNATES A
 PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING THAT DOES NOT  HAVE  INSTRUCTIONAL  SPACE  AS  AN
 EARLY  POLLING  LOCATION, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01771-01-3
              

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