Assembly Bill A3601

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Eliminates the reference to "inmate" when referring to residents of veterans administration hospitals for purposes of absentee voting

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4329
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง5-215, 8-400 & 8-404, El L

2015-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the reference to "inmate" when referring to residents of veteran's administration hospitals for purposes of absentee voting.

2015-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3601

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Election Law

AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to eliminating the refer-
  ence to "inmate" when referring to residents of veterans health admin-
  istration hospitals for purposes of absentee voting

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  1, 5 and 8 of section 5-215 of the election
law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 90 of the laws of 1991,  subdi-
vision  8  as added by chapter 347 of the laws of 1982, and such section
as renumbered by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as
follows:
  1. The board of elections in the county in which a veterans'  hospital
is located shall appoint a board of registration which shall attend each
veterans'  hospital between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and
five o'clock in the evening on the seventh Thursday before each  general
election  and,  in  the event that it be necessary for the completion of
its duties, on the seventh Friday before such election  except  that  if
any  of  the  religious  holidays  of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Simchas
Torah, Shmini Atzereth or Succoth shall fall on such days,  such  regis-
tration  shall  be  held on the next regular business day which does not
fall on any of such religious holidays, and shall receive from [inmates]
RESIDENTS or patients therein, or their spouses, parents  and  children,
the  applications  of  such  of  them  as desire and are qualified to be
registered by absentee registration.
  5. If a [Veterans' Administration Hospital] VETERANS  HEALTH  ADMINIS-
TRATION  HOSPITAL in which any veteran entitled to vote in this state is
[an inmate] A RESIDENT or patient, is located outside the State  of  New
York,  an  application  for an absentee ballot signed by such veteran or
his OR HER spouse, parent or child accompanying or  being  with  him  OR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07796-01-5

              

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