Requires the board of elections in a city with a population of one million or more to provide certain notices prior to a change of polling place, the official text

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                                  4274--C
     Cal. No. 1331
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to  said  committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
   to first and second report, amended on second  report,  ordered  to  a
   third  reading, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in
   the order of third reading -- reported favorably from  said  committee
   to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
   in the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the board  of
   elections  in  a  city  with  a  population  of one million or more to
   provide certain notices prior to a change of polling place
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  4-104 of the election law is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. (A) If the board of elections, after designating a  polling  place,
 and  after  sending  written notice of such polling place to each regis-
 tered voter, designates an alternative polling place, it must, at  least
 five days before the next election or day for registration, send by mail
 a  written notice to each registered voter notifying [him] SUCH VOTER of
 the changed location of such polling place. If such notice is not possi-
 ble the board of elections must  provide  for  an  alternative  form  of
 notice  to  be  given  to voters at the location of the previous polling
 place.
   (B) IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, IF  THE  BOARD
 OF ELECTIONS, AFTER DESIGNATING A POLLING PLACE, IS NOTIFIED OF THE NEED
 TO  CHANGE  THE  LOCATION OF SUCH POLLING PLACE, SUCH BOARD OF ELECTIONS
 SHALL, WITHIN FIVE DAYS OF RECEIVING SUCH NOTICE, NOTIFY BY MAIL:
   (I) THE CHAIRPERSONS OF ALL STATE PARTY COMMITTEES;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (II) THE CHAIRPERSONS OF ALL COUNTY PARTY COMMITTEES IN THE COUNTY  IN
 WHICH SUCH POLLING PLACE IS LOCATED;
   (III)  THE  MEMBER  OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT IN
 WHICH SUCH POLLING PLACE IS LOCATED AND ANY MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY
 WHOSE DISTRICT INCLUDES ANY ELECTION DISTRICT THE RESIDENTS OF WHICH ARE
 ASSIGNED TO VOTE AT SUCH POLLING PLACE;
   (IV) THE STATE SENATOR REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH POLLING
 PLACE IS LOCATED AND ANY  STATE  SENATOR  WHOSE  DISTRICT  INCLUDES  ANY
 ELECTION  DISTRICT  THE  RESIDENTS OF WHICH ARE ASSIGNED TO VOTE AT SUCH
 POLLING PLACE;
   (V) THE CITY COUNCILMEMBER REPRESENTING THE  DISTRICT  IN  WHICH  SUCH
 POLLING  PLACE  IS  LOCATED  AND  ANY  CITY COUNCILMEMBER WHOSE DISTRICT
 INCLUDES ANY ELECTION DISTRICT THE RESIDENTS OF WHICH  ARE  ASSIGNED  TO
 VOTE AT SUCH POLLING PLACE; AND
   (VI)  IN  AN  ASSEMBLY DISTRICT IN WHICH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEADERS ARE
 ELECTED TO REPRESENT AN ENTIRE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, THE ASSEMBLY  DISTRICT
 LEADERS REPRESENTING THE DISTRICT IN WHICH SUCH POLLING PLACE IS LOCATED
 AND  ANY  ASSEMBLY  DISTRICT LEADER WHOSE DISTRICT INCLUDES ANY ELECTION
 DISTRICT THE RESIDENTS OF WHICH ARE ASSIGNED TO  VOTE  AT  SUCH  POLLING
 PLACE, OR, IN AN ASSEMBLY DISTRICT IN WHICH DISTRICT LEADERS ARE ELECTED
 IN  PARTS,  THE DISTRICT LEADERS FOR THE PART IN WHICH THE POLLING PLACE
 IS LOCATED AND ANY ASSEMBLY DISTRICT  LEADER  WHOSE  PART  INCLUDES  ANY
 ELECTION  DISTRICT  THE  RESIDENTS OF WHICH ARE ASSIGNED TO VOTE AT SUCH
 POLLING PLACE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.