Bill Text: NY S08120 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Directs the state board of elections to create a plan to permit voting by mail in the event of a natural disaster or state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - PRINT NUMBER 8120A [S08120 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08120-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8120--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. METZGER, CARLUCCI, KENNEDY, MARTINEZ, RAMOS, SALAZAR
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the  Committee  on  Elections  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT relating to the establishment of voting by mail in the case of  a
          natural disaster or state of emergency

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The state board of elections shall, by September 1, 2020 or
     2  30 days after this act shall have become a law, whichever  comes  first,
     3  create  a  plan that provides for the establishment and use of voting by
     4  mail for elections in the case of a natural disaster or state  of  emer-
     5  gency.    Such  plan  shall  otherwise comply with all provisions of the
     6  election law.  For purposes of this section, "voting by mail" shall mean
     7  an election for which all eligible voters receive ballots  by  mail  and
     8  vote by mailing those ballots, depositing the ballots at, as applicable,
     9  drop-off locations or voter service and polling centers, or, as applica-
    10  ble, by voting at a voter service and polling center.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15987-03-0
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