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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6532--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 15, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to change of enrollment by
          previously registered voters

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-304  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  90  of  the  laws  of  1991, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. A change of enrollment received by  the  board  of  elections  [not
     5  later  than  the  twenty-fifth  day before the general election shall be
     6  deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which shall not  be  opened  until
     7  the  first  Tuesday  following  such  general  election.  Such change of
     8  enrollment shall be then removed and entered as provided in  this  arti-
     9  cle]  will  take  effect  immediately,  provided  however, any change of
    10  enrollment received by the board of elections after February  fourteenth
    11  and  before or on seven days after the June primary shall take effect on
    12  the seventh day after the June primary.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-604 of the election law, as amended by
    14  chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
    15    1. The board of elections shall also cause to be  published  for  each
    16  election  district  a  complete  list  of  the registered voters of each
    17  election district. Such list  shall,  in  addition  to  the  information
    18  required  for  registration  lists, include the party enrollment of each
    19  voter. At least as many copies of such list shall  be  prepared  as  the
    20  required minimum number of registration lists.
    21    Lists  for  all  the election districts in a ward or assembly district
    22  may be bound together in one volume. The board of elections  shall  also
    23  cause  to  be published a complete list of names and residence addresses
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13404-02-9
        S. 6532--A                          2
 
     1  of the registered voters, including the party enrollment of each  voter,
     2  for  each town and city over which the board has jurisdiction. The names
     3  for each town and city may be arranged according to street and number or
     4  alphabetically.  Such  lists shall be published before the [first] twen-
     5  ty-first day of February. The board shall keep at least five copies  for
     6  public  inspection  at  each  main office or branch office of the board.
     7  Surplus copies of the lists shall be sold at a charge not exceeding  the
     8  cost of publication.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.