STATE OF NEW YORK
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5052
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, BORRELLO, MATTERA, OBERACKER, ORTT, PALUMBO,
STEC, TEDISCO, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
ed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to preventing munici-
palities from abridging the election law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5-106 of the election law is amended by adding two
2 new subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows:
3 7. No person who does not have the right to register for or vote at
4 any election under the provisions of this chapter and/or the state
5 constitution shall have the right to register for or vote at any
6 election granted to him or her by a county, city, town, or village
7 through any action including, but not limited to, any amendment of a
8 municipal charter or passage of any local law.
9 8. No person shall have their right to register for or vote at any
10 election abridged by a county, city, town, or village through any action
11 including, but not limited to, any amendment of a municipal charter or
12 passage of any local law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02047-01-3
