Senator Shelley B. Mayer (SD-37) and Assemblyman Steve Otis (AD-91) announce that Governor Hochul has signed legislation they sponsored (S.9763/A.9991) regarding village referenda, as part of a package of bills to strengthen voting rights. The bill corrects a conflict between two provisions in state law that made it impossible for a village to place a referendum on the ballot on the regular November election date because there was no way to comply with the conflicting timetable requirements of the two sections of law.
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