Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jun 01, 2016 |
signed chap.44 |
May 20, 2016 |
delivered to governor |
May 16, 2016 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.729 substituted for s6818 |
Mar 29, 2016 |
referred to elections delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 06, 2016 |
ordered to third reading cal.316 returned to assembly died in senate |
Jun 10, 2015 |
referred to elections delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jun 09, 2015 |
ordered to third reading rules cal.180 rules report cal.180 reported |
Jun 03, 2015 |
reported referred to rules |
May 27, 2015 |
referred to election law |
Assembly Bill A7817
Signed By Governor2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CUSICK
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
David Buchwald
2015-A7817 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S6818
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§4-117 & 5-210, El L
2015-A7817 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7817 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 27, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to ensuring certain notification requirements are cost-effective and efficient THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4-117 of the election law, as amended by chapter 288 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 1. The board of elections, between August first and August fifth of each year, shall send by [first class] mail on which is endorsed ["ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED"] SUCH LANGUAGE DESIGNATED BY THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO ENSURE POSTAL AUTHORITIES DO NOT FORWARD SUCH MAIL BUT RETURN IT TO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS WITH FORWARDING INFORMATION, WHEN IT CANNOT BE DELIVERED AS ADDRESSED and which contains a request that any such mail received for persons not residing at the address be dropped back in the mail, a communication, in a form approved by the state board of elections, to every registered voter who has been regis- tered without a change of address since the beginning of such year, except that the board of elections shall not be required to send such communications to voters in inactive status. The communication shall notify the voter of the days and hours of the ensuing primary and gener- al elections, the place where he appears by his registration records to be entitled to vote, the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved from the address where they were last registered must re-register or, that if such move was to another address in the same county or city, that such voter may either notify the board of elections of his new address or vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his new address even if such voter has not re-registered, or otherwise notified the board of elections of the change of address. If the location of the polling place for the voter's election district has been moved, the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11371-01-5
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