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A00112 Committee Votes:

Committee:ELECTION LAW   Chair:Lavine      
DATE:03/12/2019AYE/NAY:15/0  Action: Favorable         
Lavine
Aye
Norris
Aye
Galef
Aye
Brabenec
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Mikulin
Aye
Lentol
Aye
Tague
Aye
Lifton
Aye
Buchwald
Aye
Blake
Aye
Walker
Absent
Carroll
Aye
Taylor
Aye
Jacobson
Aye
D'Urso
Aye

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A00112 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
 submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)



 
BILL NUMBER: A112A
 
SPONSOR: Buchwald (MS)

 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the election law, in relation to
ballot proposals
 
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
 
To better inform voters as to important ballot questions when a ballot
is two sided
 
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
 
This bill amends section 7-110 of the election law to provide clear
instructions to voters if the ballot is two-sided.
 
 
JUSTIFICATION:
 
It is almost always necessary to place ballot questions on the side of
the ballot opposite the side of the ballot where candidates appear.
This bill ensures voters are appropriately informed when their ballot is
a two-sided ballot.
 
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
 
2018: A.9923 - Passed Assembly 130 to 0
 
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
 
None
 
 
EFFECTS ON FINES, TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT AND OTHER PENAL SANCTIONS:
 
None
 
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of December after it
shall become law.

A00112 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         112--A
                                                                Cal. No. 123
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUCHWALD, SANTABARBARA, PAULIN, NIOU, GALEF,
          SEAWRIGHT, BLAKE, JAFFEE, MONTESANO, CROUCH, BYRNE,  GUNTHER,  RIVERA,
          GOTTFRIED,  DAVILA, WEPRIN, GLICK, D'URSO, JACOBSON -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A. COOK, LUPARDO, B. MILLER, M. L. MILLER, SIMON,  THIELE,
          WRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --
          reported from committee, advanced to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to ballot proposals
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 7-110 of the election law, as  amended  by  chapter
     2  647 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  7-110.  Ballots;  form for ballot proposals. Ballot proposals shall
     4  appear on the voting machine or ballot in a  separate  section.  At  the
     5  left of, or below or above, each proposal shall appear two voting levers
     6  or  two  voting squares, each at least one-half inch square. Next to the
     7  first lever or square shall be printed the word "Yes," and next  to  the
     8  second  lever  or  square  shall be printed the word "No." The proposals
     9  shall be numbered consecutively on the voting  machine  or  ballot.  The
    10  number  of  each proposal shall appear in front of its designation as an
    11  amendment, proposition or question in the  following  form:    "Proposal
    12  one,  an amendment; proposal two, a proposition; proposal three, a ques-
    13  tion".  If the ballot proposal section appears on the ballot face  oppo-
    14  site  the  candidates,  a ballot instruction in a format provided by the
    15  state board of elections, which may include a graphic arrow, shall indi-
    16  cate the ballot is two-sided.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on  the  fifteenth  of  December  next
    18  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01045-02-9

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