---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m."
description: "Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 4009"
citation: "New York S 4009 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["MAYER"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce0f7352-5616-4e03-adfe-2c3f7b1df7ab"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S4009"
source_hash: "442574edaf623ae8f601c795c106851cf7a3cdf93366bfcfbf763d6ca332edd0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 4009 (2019-2020) — Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S4009** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4009&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Finance Vote — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Education Vote — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- MAYER — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-25** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14** 1ST REPORT CAL.727
- **2019-05-15** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2019-05-20** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2019-05-22** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-05-22** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-05-22** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6540
- **2019-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.623
- **2019-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-10-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-11-08** SIGNED CHAP.471 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce0f7352-5616-4e03-adfe-2c3f7b1df7ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).