Assembly Bill A1111

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A1111 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10537
2021-2022: A4188

2023-A1111 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election.

2023-A1111 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1111
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN, DARLING, DICKENS -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an
   application for an absentee ballot to the board of  elections  through
   and on the day of the election

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-400  of  the
 election  law, as separately amended by chapters 273 and 746 of the laws
 of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) All applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail or  through
 the  electronic  absentee  ballot application transmittal system must be
 received by the board of elections not  later  than  the  fifteenth  day
 before  the election for which a ballot is first requested. Applications
 for an absentee ballot that will be delivered in person at the board  of
 elections  to  the voter or to an agent of the voter must be received by
 such board not later than the day [before] OF such election.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03114-01-3

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