Bill Text: NY A05601 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows absentee voting for persons unable to vote due to duties, occupation, business, personal matters or studies; no agent may collect more than 15 ballots except with approval of two inspectors representing different political parties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-25 - print number 5601a [A05601 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05601-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5601--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 27, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law -- recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee voting quali-
          fications
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 8-400 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2010, paragraph (c) as  amended  by
     3  chapter  375 of the laws of 2015, is amended and a new subdivision 11 is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    1. A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this  chapter
     6  if,  on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of
     7  elections, primary election, special election, general election  or  New
     8  York  city  community  school  board  district or city of Buffalo school
     9  district election, he or she expects to be[:
    10    (a) absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a  resident
    11  of the city of New York absent from said city; or
    12    (b)  unable  to appear personally at the polling place of the election
    13  district in which he or she is a qualified voter because of  illness  or
    14  physical disability or duties related to the primary care of one or more
    15  individuals  who  are  ill  or physically disabled, or because he or she
    16  will be or is a patient in a hospital; or
    17    (c) a resident or patient of a veterans health  administration  hospi-
    18  tal; or
    19    (d)  absent  from  his  or  her  voting residence because he or she is
    20  detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting  trial,  or
    21  confined  in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other than
    22  a felony, provided that he or she is qualified to vote in  the  election

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  district  of  his  or  her  residence]  unable  to vote in person due to
     2  duties, occupation, business, personal matters or studies.
     3    11.  No single agent shall collect more than fifteen absentee ballots,
     4  except upon application and  approval  of  two  inspectors  representing
     5  different political parties.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it  shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, any rules and regu-
     8  lations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its  effec-
     9  tive date are authorized to be made before such effective date.