NY State Senate Bill 2023-S2309

Senate Bill S2309

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

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Jan 03, 2024	referred to elections
Jan 19, 2023	referred to elections

2023-S2309 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Elections
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S7982
2021-2022: S305

2023-S2309 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York.

2023-S2309 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2309

SPONSOR: MYRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the election law, in relation to the creation, consol-
idation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of
elections in the city of New York

 
PURPOSE:

Authorizes the Board of Elections in the City of New York to create
Election Districts with up to four thousand (4,000) active registrants.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 4-100 of the
election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994 which allows
the city of New York to have election districts containing no more than
four thousand active registrants.

Section 2 provides for the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This proposal allows an election district within the City of New York to
contain no more than four thousand registered voters, rather than one
thousand one hundred fifty registered voters as currently provided. This
change reflects the pressing need of the Board of Elections in the City
of New York, which has had difficulty in identifying and selecting
accessible poll sites. The change in the number of voters in each
election district, also reflects the increased capabilities of the new
optical scanner voting system and brings the Election Law in line with
the maximum number of voters per scanner (4000) mandated by the New York
State Board of Elections Rules and Regulations Section 6210.1
9(b)(2)(a).

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S305 of 2021-22: Referred to Elections.

S7982 of 2019-20: Referred to Elections.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S2309 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2309
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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 the  creation,  consol-
   idation,  division,  and alteration of election districts by the board
   of elections in the city of New York

   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 section 2 of part O of  chapter  55  of  the
 laws of 2022, 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,  the
 contiguous  property  of  a  college  or university which contains three
 hundred or more registrants who are registered to vote at any address on
 such contiguous property, 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 subdivi-
 sions and college or university properties 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 two thousand registrants (excluding
 registrants in inactive status), EXCEPT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK WHERE AN
 ELECTION DISTRICT SHALL NOT CONTAIN MORE THAN FOUR THOUSAND  REGISTRANTS
 (EXCLUDING  REGISTRANTS  IN  INACTIVE STATUS), but any election district
 may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04064-01-3

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