Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 09, 2010 |
held for consideration in election law |
Jan 06, 2010 |
referred to election law |
Jan 27, 2009 |
referred to election law |
Assembly Bill A3549
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
PERRY
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A3549 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A3549 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3549 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 27, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HOOPER, HOYT, ORTIZ, SCARBOROUGH, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the days and hours for voting in primary and general elections THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4-117 of the election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 1. The board of elections, not less than sixty-five days nor more than seventy days before the day of the general election in each year, shall send by first class mail on which is endorsed "ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED" and which contains a request that any such mail received for persons not residing at the address be dropped back in the mail, a communication, in a form approved by the state board of elections, to every registered voter who has been registered without a change of address since the beginning of such year, except that the board of elections shall not be required to send such communications to voters in inactive status. The communication shall notify the voter IN BOLD PRINT OF AT LEAST SIXTEEN POINT FONT CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE of the days and hours of the ensuing primary and general elections, the place where he appears by his registration records to be entitled to vote, AND ALSO IN OTHER THAN BOLD TYPE OF the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved from the address where they were last registered must re-register or, that if such move was to another address in the same county or city, that such voter may either notify the board of elections of his new address or vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his new address even if such voter has not re-registered, or otherwise notified the board of elections of the change of address. If the location of the polling place for the voter's election district has been moved, the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01821-01-9
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