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Mar 13, 2020 |
opinion referred to judiciary |
Feb 14, 2020 |
to attorney-general for opinion |
Feb 07, 2019 |
opinion referred to judiciary |
Jan 15, 2019 |
delivered to secretary of state |
Jan 14, 2019 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.7 substituted for a778 referred to judiciary delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.4 reported and committed to rules |
Jan 11, 2019 |
to attorney-general for opinion |
Jan 10, 2019 |
referred to judiciary |
Senate Bill S1049
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 14th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- 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
(D) 15th Senate District
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
(D) 36th Senate District
(D) Senate District
2019-S1049 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S1049 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1049 SPONSOR: COMRIE TITLE OF BILL: CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 2 of article 2 of the constitution, in relation to authoriz- ing ballot by mail by removing cause for absentee ballot voting PURPOSE: This resolution shall propose to amend the state Constitution to allow for any voter to request to vote by mail without declaring any reason for doing so. JUSTIFICATION: Currently, the New York State Constitution only allows absentee voting if a person expects to be absent from the county in which they live, or the City of New York, or because of illness for physical disability. As we have seen in the most recent election, many states have allowed for
2019-S1049 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1049 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, GAUGHRAN, GIANARIS, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, LIU, MARTINEZ, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MONTGOMERY, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVI- SKY, STEWART-COUSINS, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary 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 Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 2 of arti- cle 2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows: § 2. The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters [who, on the occur- rence of any election, may be absent from the county of their residence or, if residents of the city of New York, from the city, and qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be unable to appear personally at the polling place because of illness or physical disabili- ty,] may vote and for the return and canvass of their votes IN ANY ELECTION. § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for 3 months previous to the time of such election. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD89004-01-9
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