New York S 654: Relates to designating early polling places

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S00654 Summary:

BILL NOS00654 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03338

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SPONSORKRUEGER

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COSPNSRHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §4-104, El L

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Relates to designating early polling places.

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BILL NOS00654 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

02/10/20251ST REPORT CAL.290

02/11/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/12/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/03/2025PASSED SENATE

03/03/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/03/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

04/21/20261ST REPORT CAL.790

04/22/20262ND REPORT CAL.

04/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/07/2026PASSED SENATE

05/07/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/07/2026referred to election law

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 654

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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 designating early poll-
 ing places

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 4-104 of the election law,
 2 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019 and subdivi-
 3 sion 3 as amended by chapter 694 of the laws of 1989, are amended to
 4 read as follows:
 5 1. Every board of elections shall, in consultation with each city,
 6 town and village, designate the polling places in each election district
 7 in which the meetings for the registration of voters, and for any
 8 election may be held. The board of trustees of each village in which
 9 general and special village elections conducted by the board of
 10 elections are held at a time other than the time of a general election
 11 shall submit such a list of polling places for such village elections to
 12 the board of elections. A polling place may be located in a building
 13 owned by a religious organization or used by it as a place of worship.
 14 If such a building is designated as a polling place, it shall not be
 15 required to be open for voter registration on any Saturday if this is
 16 contrary to the religious beliefs of the religious organization. In such
 17 a situation, the board of elections shall designate an alternate
 18 location to be used for voter registration. Such polling places must be
 19 designated by March fifteenth, of each year, and shall be effective for
 20 one year thereafter. Such a list required to be submitted by a village
 21 board of trustees must be submitted at least four months before each
 22 general village election and shall be effective until four months before
 23 the subsequent general village election. [No place in which a business

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02511-01-5

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 1 licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption is
 2 conducted on any day of local registration or of voting shall be so
 3 designated.] If, within the discretion of the board of elections a
 4 particular polling place so designated is subsequently found to be
 5 unsuitable or unsafe or should circumstances arise that make a desig-
 6 nated polling place unsuitable or unsafe, then the board of elections is
 7 empowered to select an alternative meeting place. In the city of New
 8 York, the board of elections shall designate such polling places and
 9 alternate registration places if the polling place cannot be used for
 10 voter registration on Saturdays.
 11 3. A board or body empowered to designate polling places shall desig-
 12 nate any public building as a polling place to the extent practicable,
 13 provided, however, that in no case shall a public school building be
 14 designated as an early voting polling location. If additional polling
 15 places shall be needed, a building exempt from taxation or owned by an
 16 entity receiving more than one million dollars in annual state grant