Amd §4-102, El L (as proposed in S.4591-A & A.831-A)
Relates to the accessibility of congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps in downloadable digital file formats compatible with geographic information (GIS) software.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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605
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the accessibility of
congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph e of subdivision 5 of section 4-102 of the
2 election law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the
3 election law relating to the accessibility of congressional, senatorial,
4 assembly and election district maps, as proposed in legislative bills
5 numbers S. 4591-A and A. 831-A, is amended to read as follows:
6 e. Copies of such maps shall be posted on the board of elections'
7 website. In addition, each board of elections shall make such maps
8 available in [a downloadable Shapefile format] downloadable digital file
9 formats compatible with geographic information system (GIS) software,
10 such as shapefile, geodatabase, KML, or other similar vector based GIS
11 file types.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
13 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the election law relat-
14 ing to the accessibility of congressional, senatorial, assembly and
15 election district maps, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
16 4591-A and A. 831-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04190-01-3
