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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4274--C
            Cal. No. 1331
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 3, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
          to first and second report, amended on second  report,  ordered  to  a
          third  reading, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in
          the order of third reading -- reported favorably from  said  committee
          to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          in the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the board  of
          elections  in  a  city  with  a  population  of one million or more to
          provide certain notices prior to a change of polling place
 
          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  4-104 of the election law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    2. (a) If the board of elections, after designating a  polling  place,
     4  and  after  sending  written notice of such polling place to each regis-
     5  tered voter, designates an alternative polling place, it must, at  least
     6  five days before the next election or day for registration, send by mail
     7  a  written notice to each registered voter notifying [him] such voter of
     8  the changed location of such polling place. If such notice is not possi-
     9  ble the board of elections must  provide  for  an  alternative  form  of
    10  notice  to  be  given  to voters at the location of the previous polling
    11  place.
    12    (b) In a city with a population of one million or more, if  the  board
    13  of elections, after designating a polling place, is notified of the need
    14  to  change  the  location of such polling place, such board of elections
    15  shall, within five days of receiving such notice, notify by mail:
    16    (i) the chairpersons of all state party committees;
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08055-10-5
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     1    (ii) the chairpersons of all county party committees in the county  in
     2  which such polling place is located;
     3    (iii)  the  member  of the state assembly representing the district in
     4  which such polling place is located and any member of the state assembly
     5  whose district includes any election district the residents of which are
     6  assigned to vote at such polling place;
     7    (iv) the state senator representing the district in which such polling
     8  place is located and any  state  senator  whose  district  includes  any
     9  election  district  the  residents of which are assigned to vote at such
    10  polling place;
    11    (v) the city councilmember representing the  district  in  which  such
    12  polling  place  is  located  and  any  city councilmember whose district
    13  includes any election district the residents of which  are  assigned  to
    14  vote at such polling place; and
    15    (vi)  in  an  assembly district in which assembly district leaders are
    16  elected to represent an entire assembly district, the assembly  district
    17  leaders representing the district in which such polling place is located
    18  and  any  assembly  district leader whose district includes any election
    19  district the residents of which are assigned to  vote  at  such  polling
    20  place, or, in an assembly district in which district leaders are elected
    21  in  parts,  the district leaders for the part in which the polling place
    22  is located and any assembly district  leader  whose  part  includes  any
    23  election  district  the  residents of which are assigned to vote at such
    24  polling place.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.