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BILL NUMBER: S6020
TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the election law, in relation to absentee voting for
primary care givers
PURPOSE :
This bill would allow primary care givers of persons who are suffering
from a physical disability or illness to vote by absentee ballot.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :
Section 1 of the bill amends Election Law § 8-400 (1) (c) to allow
primary care givers of persons who are suffering from a physical
disability or illness to vote by absentee ballot.
Section 2 of the bill amends Election Law § 8-400 (3) (c) (iii) to
modify the absentee ballot application to reflect the additional
category of persons who may vote by absentee ballot.
Section 3 of the bill provides the effective date.
EXISTING LAW :
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6020
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 19, 2009
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of the Governor) -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee voting for
primary care givers
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the
election law is amended to read as follows:
(c) unable to appear personally at the polling place of the election
district in which he OR SHE is a qualified voter because of illness or
physical disability, whether permanent or temporary, OR DUTIES RELATED
TO THE PRIMARY CARE OF ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ILL OR PHYSICALLY
DISABLED, or because he OR SHE will be or is a patient in a hospital; or
S 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section
8-400 of the election law is amended to read as follows:
(iii) [ill or physically disabled; that he has been advised by his
medical practitioner or christian science practitioner, giving said
practitioner's name and address, that he will not be able to go to his
polling place for such election, and whether said illness is permanent
or temporary; if he expects to be a patient in a hospital he shall state
the name and address of said hospital] UNABLE TO APPEAR AT A POLLING
PLACE BECAUSE OF ILLNESS OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR DUTIES RELATED TO THE
PRIMARY CARE OF ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ILL OR PHYSICALLY DISA-
BLED; or
S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD12098-01-9
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