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Assembly Bill A10537

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election

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2019-A10537 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4188
2023-2024: A1111
2025-2026: A5043

2019-A10537 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election.

2019-A10537 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10537
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 28, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an
   application  for  an absentee ballot to the board of elections through
   and on the day of the election
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-400 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 321 of the laws of 1988, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (c)  All  applications  must  be  mailed to the board of elections not
 later than the seventh day before the election for  which  a  ballot  is
 first  requested  or  delivered  to  such  board  not later than the day
 [before] OF such election.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16528-01-0

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