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S00943 Summary:

BILL NOS00943
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §17-140, El L
 
Increases the dollar value of items that may legally be given or provided to any person, other than persons who are official representatives of the board of elections or political parties and committees and persons who are engaged as watchers, in a polling place without any identification of the person or entity supplying such provisions.
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S00943 Text:




 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           943
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. 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 increasing  the  dollar
          value  of  items  that may legally be given or provided to any person,
          other than persons who are official representatives of  the  board  of
          elections  or  political  parties  and  committees and persons who are
          engaged as watchers, in a polling place without any identification  of
          the person or entity supplying such provisions
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 17-140 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
     2  414 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  17-140.  Furnishing  money or entertainment to induce attendance at
     4  polls. Any person who directly or indirectly by  [himself]  themself  or
     5  through  any  other  person  in  connection  with  or  in respect of any
     6  election during the hours of voting on a day of a  general,  special  or
     7  primary  election  gives or provides, or causes to be given or provided,
     8  or shall pay, wholly or in  part,  for  any  [meat,]  drink,  [tobacco,]
     9  refreshment  or  provision  to or for any person, other than persons who
    10  are official representatives of the  board  of  elections  or  political
    11  parties  and  committees  and persons who are engaged as watchers, party
    12  representatives or workers assisting  the  candidate,  except  any  such
    13  [meat,] drink, [tobacco,] refreshment or provision having a retail value
    14  of  less  than  [one dollar] five dollars, which is given or provided to
    15  any person in a polling place without any identification of  the  person
    16  or entity supplying such provisions, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03217-01-5
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