New York A 396: Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours

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A00396 Summary:

BILL NOA00396 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORStirpe

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§8-600 & 4-104, El L

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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.

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BILL NOA00396 

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01/08/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026referred to election law

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 396

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 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 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the election law is
 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
 3 (i) No public school building with instructional space shall be desig-
 4 nated as an early polling location.
 5 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 4-104 of the election law, as amended by
 6 chapter 694 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
 7 3. A building exempt from taxation shall be used whenever possible as
 8 a polling place if it is situated in the same or a contiguous election
 9 district, and may contain as many distinctly separate polling places as
 10 public convenience may require. The expense, if any, incidental to its
 11 use, shall be paid like the expense of other places of registration and
 12 voting. If a board or body empowered to designate polling places chooses
 13 a public school building for such purpose, the board or agency which
 14 controls such building must make available a room or rooms in such
 15 building which are suitable for registration and voting and which are as
 16 close as possible to a convenient entrance to such building and must
 17 make available any such room or rooms which the board or body designat-
 18 ing such building determines are accessible to physically disabled
 19 voters as provided in subdivision one-a. Notwithstanding the provisions
 20 of this subdivision, no board or body empowered to designate polling
 21 places shall designate a public school building with instructional space
 22 as an early polling location, and if such board or body designates a
 23 public school building that does not have instructional space as an

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01513-01-5

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 1 early polling location, the superintendent of such school district may
 2 decline such designation. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,
 3 special or local law, if a board or body empowered to designate polling
 4 places chooses a publicly owned or leased building, other than a public
 5 school building, for such purposes the board or body which controls such
 6 building must make available a room or rooms in such building which are
 7 suitable for registration and voting and which are as close as possible
 8 to a convenient entrance to such building, and must make available any
 9 such room or rooms which the board or body designating such building
 10 determines are accessible to physically disabled voters unless, not
 11 later than thirty days after notice of its designation as a polling
 12 place, the board or body controlling such building, files a written
 13 request for a cancellation of such designation with the board or body
 14 empowered to designate polling places on such form as shall be provided
 15 by the board or body making such designation. The board or body
 16 empowered to so designate shall, within twenty days after such request
 17 is filed, determine whether the use of such building as a polling place
 18 would unreasonably interfere with the usual activities conducted in such
 19 building and upon such determination, may cancel such desig