New York S 2015: Establishes no school shall serve as a polling place

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S02015 Summary:

BILL NOS02015 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06153

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COSPNSROBERACKER

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Amd §4-104, El L

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Establishes no polling place shall be located on the premises of any public or private elementary or secondary school or a school for preschool children.

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2015

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 establishing no school
 shall serve as a polling place

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4-104 of the election law, as
 2 amended by chapter 694 of the laws of 1989, is amended and a new subdi-
 3 vision 7-a is added to read as follows:
 4 3. A building exempt from taxation shall be used whenever possible as
 5 a polling place if it is situated in the same or a contiguous election
 6 district, and may contain as many distinctly separate polling places as
 7 public convenience may require. The expense, if any, incidental to its
 8 use, shall be paid like the expense of other places of registration and
 9 voting. [If a board or body empowered to designate polling places choos-
 10 es a public school building for such purpose, the board or agency which
 11 controls such building must make available a room or rooms in such
 12 building which are suitable for registration and voting and which are as
 13 close as possible to a convenient entrance to such building and must
 14 make available any such room or rooms which the board or body designat-
 15 ing such building determines are accessible to physically disabled
 16 voters as provided in subdivision one-a.] Notwithstanding the provisions
 17 of any general, special or local law, if a board or body empowered to
 18 designate polling places chooses a publicly owned or leased building[,
 19 other than a public school building,] for such purposes the board or
 20 body which controls such building must make available a room or rooms in
 21 such building which are suitable for registration and voting and which
 22 are as close as possible to a convenient entrance to such building, and
 23 must make available any such room or rooms which the board or body
 24 designating such building determines are accessible to physically disa-
 25 bled voters unless, not later than thirty days after notice of its

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01643-01-5

 S. 2015 2

 1 designation as a polling place, the board or body controlling such
 2 building, files a written request for a cancellation of such designation
 3 with the board or body empowered to designate polling places on such
 4 form as shall be provided by the board or body making such designation.
 5 The board or body empowered to so designate shall, within twenty days
 6 after such request is filed, determine whether the use of such building
 7 as a polling place would unreasonably interfere with the usual activ-
 8 ities conducted in such building and upon such determination, may cancel
 9 such designation.
 10 7-a. No polling place shall be located on the premises of any public
 11 or private elementary or secondary school or a school for preschool
 12 children, as that term is defined in paragraph i of subdivision one of
 13 section forty-four hundred ten of the education law.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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