New York S 6561: Provides that certain applicants be eligible for conviction sealing

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S06561 Summary:

BILL NOS06561 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLANZA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§8-600 & 4-104, El L

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Exempts public school buildings from being designated as early polling locations.

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BILL NOS06561 

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03/17/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6561

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 exempting 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 shall be designated as an early polling
 4 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 of this section. Notwithstand-
 20 ing the provisions of this subdivision, no board or body empowered to
 21 designate polling places shall designate a public school building as an
 22 early polling location. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,
 23 special or local law, if a board or body empowered to designate polling
 24 places chooses a publicly owned or leased building, other than a public
 25 school building, for such purposes the board or body which controls such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10589-01-5

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 1 building must make available a room or rooms in such building which are
 2 suitable for registration and voting and which are as close as possible
 3 to a convenient entrance to such building, and must make available any
 4 such room or rooms which the board or body designating such building
 5 determines are accessible to physically disabled voters unless, not
 6 later than thirty days after notice of its designation as a polling
 7 place, the board or body controlling such building, files a written
 8 request for a cancellation of such designation with the board or body
 9 empowered to designate polling places on such form as shall be provided
 10 by the board or body making such designation. The board or body
 11 empowered to so designate shall, within twenty days after such request
 12 is filed, determine whether the use of such building as a polling place
 13 would unreasonably interfere with the usual activities conducted in such
 14 building and upon such determination, may cancel such designation.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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