Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A9097A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes any voter at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

multi-Sponsors

2015-A9097 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L

2015-A9097 - Summary

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

2015-A9097 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9097

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 26, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Election Law

AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to authorizing any quali-
  fied voter to request an absentee ballot

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 8-400 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 63 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this chapter
[if, on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of
elections, primary election, special election, general election  or  New
York  city  community  school  board  district or city of Buffalo school
district election, he or she expects to be:
  (a) absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a  resident
of the city of New York absent from said city; or
  (b)  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 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
  (c) an inmate or patient of a veteran's administration hospital; or
  (d) absent from his or her voting  residence  because  he  or  she  is
detained  in  jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or
confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other  than
a  felony,  provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election
district of his or her residence] UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10994-01-5

co-Sponsors

multi-Sponsors

2015-A9097A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L

2015-A9097A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A9097A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 9097--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 26, 2016
                               ___________

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:

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 8-400  of  the  election  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  63  of  the  laws  of  2010, is amended to read as
follows:
  4. A voter who claims permanent illness [or], physical disability,  OR
ANY  VOTER  AT  LEAST SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE may make application for an
absentee ballot and the right to receive an  absentee  ballot  for  each
election  thereafter  as provided herein without further application, by
filing with the board of elections an application which shall contain  a
statement  to  be executed by the voter. Upon filing of such application
the board of elections shall cause the registration records of the voter
to be marked "Permanently Disabled" OR  "SENIOR"  and  thereafter  shall
send  an absentee ballot for each succeeding primary, special or general
election to such voter at his or her last known address by  first  class
mail with a request to the postal authorities not to forward such ballot
but  to  return it in five days in the event that it cannot be delivered
to the addressee. The mailing of such ballot  for  each  election  shall
continue until such voter's registration is cancelled.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date as a concurrent
resolution entitled "CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE  SENATE  AND  ASSEMBLY
proposing an amendment to section 2 of article 2 of the constitution, in
relation  to  authorizing  ballot by mail by removing cause for absentee
ballot voting", as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.4456A  and
A.3874B, take effect.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10994-09-6

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.