Assembly Bill A1979

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Clarifies the qualification to receive an absentee ballot and clarifies the process for delivery of an absentee ballot

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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-A1979 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง8-406, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8269
2017-2018: A1474
2019-2020: A3500
2021-2022: A4969
2023-2024: A4358

2015-A1979 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the qualification to receive an absentee ballot and clarifies the process for delivery of an absentee ballot.

2015-A1979 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1979

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, McDONALD, JAFFEE, DUPREY,
  GOODELL, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  CROUCH,  LUPARDO,
  OAKS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to clarifying the quali-
  fication to receive an absentee ballot and clarifying the process  for
  delivery of an absentee ballot

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

  Section 1. Section 8-406 of the election law, as  amended  by  chapter
296 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
  S  8-406.  Absentee  ballots,  delivery of. 1. If the board shall find
that the applicant  is  a  qualified  voter  of  the  election  district
containing  his  OR  HER residence as stated in his OR HER statement and
that his OR HER statement is sufficient, it shall, as soon as  practica-
ble after it shall have determined his OR HER right thereto, mail to him
OR  HER at [an] THE address [designated by him] FROM WHICH THE APPLICANT
IS REGISTERED TO VOTE OR A TEMPORARY ADDRESS WHERE HE OR SHE IS CURRENT-
LY LIVING, or deliver to him OR HER, or to  any  person  designated  for
such  purpose in writing by him OR HER, at the office of the board, such
an absentee voter's ballot or set of ballots and an  envelope  therefor.
NO PERSON MAY BE DESIGNATED TO RECEIVE MORE THAN TWO ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN
A  GIVEN ELECTION. NO PERSON WHO IS A CANDIDATE IN THE ELECTION IN WHICH
AN APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED THE ABSENTEE BALLOT MAY BE  A  PERSON  DESIG-
NATED  TO  RECEIVE  BALLOTS.  If  the  ballot  or ballots are to be sent
outside of the United States to a country other than Canada  or  Mexico,
such  ballot or ballots shall be sent by air mail. However, if an appli-
cant who is eligible for an absentee ballot is a resident of a  facility
operated or licensed by, or under the jurisdiction of, the department of
mental hygiene, or a resident of a facility defined as a nursing home or
residential  health care facility pursuant to subdivisions two and three
of section two thousand eight hundred one of the public health law, or a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02964-01-5
              

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