Bill Text: NY A01423 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1423 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Amends procedures for change of party enrollment to require postmark 25 days prior to a primary, general or special election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A01423 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01423-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1423
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON,  THIELE,  ARROYO,  SEAWRIGHT, HUNTER,
          EPSTEIN, RIVERA, BLAKE, BARRON  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Election Law
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to change of enrollment
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-304  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  90  of  the  laws  of  1991, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. A change of enrollment received by the board of elections,  showing
     5  a  dated  cancellation  mark  of  the  United  States Postal Service, or
     6  contained in an envelope showing such a dated cancellation mark which is
     7  dated not later than the twenty-fifth day before the  [general  election
     8  shall be deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which shall not be opened
     9  until  the first Tuesday following such general election. Such change of
    10  enrollment shall be then removed and entered as provided in  this  arti-
    11  cle] next ensuing primary, general, or special election, and received no
    12  later  than  the  twentieth  day  before  such election, or delivered in
    13  person to such county board of elections not later than  the  tenth  day
    14  before  a  special election, shall have such change of enrollment effec-
    15  tive for such election. Enrollment changes shall be entered as  provided
    16  in  this  article  and will be deemed to take effect on the twenty-fifth
    17  day after such  change  of  enrollment  is  received  by  the  board  of
    18  elections or if the change of enrollment, or the envelope containing it,
    19  bears  a  dated  cancellation  mark of the United States Postal Service,
    20  such change shall be entered and will be deemed to take  effect  on  the
    21  twenty-fifth  day  after  the  date  of such mark, whichever is earlier;
    22  except that no change will take effect sooner  than  the  twentieth  day
    23  after the receipt of such change of enrollment by the board of elections
    24  except with regard to special elections as provided in this subdivision.
    25    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01808-01-9