Bill Text: NY A09097 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes any qualified voter at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-29 - print number 9097a [A09097 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09097-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9097--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 26, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ABINANTI, BRINDISI, COLTON, WOZNIAK, GALEF --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WOERNER -- read once  and  referred  to
          the  Committee  on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to authorizing  any  voter
          at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 8-400  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  63  of  the  laws  of  2010, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    4. A voter who claims permanent illness [or], physical disability,  or
     5  any  voter  at  least sixty-two years of age may make application for an
     6  absentee ballot and the right to receive an  absentee  ballot  for  each
     7  election  thereafter  as provided herein without further application, by
     8  filing with the board of elections an application which shall contain  a
     9  statement  to  be executed by the voter. Upon filing of such application
    10  the board of elections shall cause the registration records of the voter
    11  to be marked "Permanently Disabled" or  "Senior"  and  thereafter  shall
    12  send  an absentee ballot for each succeeding primary, special or general
    13  election to such voter at his or her last known address by  first  class
    14  mail with a request to the postal authorities not to forward such ballot
    15  but  to  return it in five days in the event that it cannot be delivered
    16  to the addressee. The mailing of such ballot  for  each  election  shall
    17  continue until such voter's registration is cancelled.
    18    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date as a concurrent
    19  resolution entitled "CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE  SENATE  AND  ASSEMBLY
    20  proposing an amendment to section 2 of article 2 of the constitution, in
    21  relation  to  authorizing  ballot by mail by removing cause for absentee
    22  ballot voting", as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.4456A  and
    23  A.3874B, take effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10994-09-6