Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Oct 26, 2015 |
signed chap.375 |
Oct 14, 2015 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 15, 2015 |
returned to assembly passed senate substituted for s4329 |
Mar 23, 2015 |
referred to elections delivered to senate passed assembly |
Mar 20, 2015 |
advanced to third reading cal.126 |
Mar 19, 2015 |
reported |
Jan 27, 2015 |
referred to election law |
Assembly Bill A3601
Signed By Governor2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
DINOWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Michael Benedetto
Michael DenDekker
2015-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S4329
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§5-215, 8-400 & 8-404, El L
2015-A3601 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3601 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 27, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to eliminating the refer- ence to "inmate" when referring to residents of veterans health admin- istration hospitals for purposes of absentee voting THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 5 and 8 of section 5-215 of the election law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 90 of the laws of 1991, subdi- vision 8 as added by chapter 347 of the laws of 1982, and such section as renumbered by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows: 1. The board of elections in the county in which a veterans' hospital is located shall appoint a board of registration which shall attend each veterans' hospital between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening on the seventh Thursday before each general election and, in the event that it be necessary for the completion of its duties, on the seventh Friday before such election except that if any of the religious holidays of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Simchas Torah, Shmini Atzereth or Succoth shall fall on such days, such regis- tration shall be held on the next regular business day which does not fall on any of such religious holidays, and shall receive from [inmates] RESIDENTS or patients therein, or their spouses, parents and children, the applications of such of them as desire and are qualified to be registered by absentee registration. 5. If a [Veterans' Administration Hospital] VETERANS HEALTH ADMINIS- TRATION HOSPITAL in which any veteran entitled to vote in this state is [an inmate] A RESIDENT or patient, is located outside the State of New York, an application for an absentee ballot signed by such veteran or his OR HER spouse, parent or child accompanying or being with him OR EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07796-01-5
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