S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1385
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ORTIZ --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the  days
   and hours for voting in primary and general elections
 
   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 3 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  board  of elections, between August first and August fifth of
 each year, shall send by mail on which is endorsed such language  desig-
 nated  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 registered 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 IN BOLD PRINT OF AT LEAST SIXTEEN
 POINT FONT CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE of the days and hours of the ensuing
 primary and general elections, the place where he appears by his  regis-
 tration records to be entitled to vote, AND ALSO IN OTHER THAN BOLD TYPE
 OF  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 primary will not be held on
 the first Tuesday after the second Monday  in  September,  the  communi-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD06676-01-9

 A. 1385                             2
 
 cation  shall  contain  a  conspicuous notice in all capital letters and
 bold font notifying the voter of the primary date. If  the  location  of
 the  polling place for the voter's election district has been moved, the
 communication  shall  contain  the  following legend in bold type: "YOUR
 POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........". The communi-
 cation shall also indicate whether the polling place  is  accessible  to
 physically  disabled voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or
 county on the day of the primary or general election or a voter  who  is
 ill  or  physically disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a phys-
 ically disabled voter whose polling place is not accessible may  request
 that  his registration record be moved to an election district which has
 a polling place which is accessible, the phone number to call for appli-
 cations to move a registration record or for  absentee  ballot  applica-
 tions,  the  phone  number  to call for the location of registration and
 polling places, the phone number to call to indicate that the  voter  is
 willing  to  serve on election day as an election inspector, poll clerk,
 interpreter or in other capacities, the phone number to call  to  obtain
 an  application  for  registration  by  mail, and such other information
 concerning the elections or registration as the board  may  include.  In
 lieu  of sending such communication to every registered voter, the board
 of elections may send a single communication to a  household  containing
 more  than  one  registered  voter,  provided that the names of all such
 voters appear as part of the address on such communication.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1385--A
                                                         Cal. No. 226
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, JACOBSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   ORTIZ  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --
   reported from committee, advanced to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

 AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the days
   and hours for voting in primary and general elections
 
   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
 separately amended by chapters 3 and 5 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   1. The board of elections, not less than sixty-five days nor more than
 seventy  days  before  the  primary election in each year, shall send by
 mail on which is endorsed 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 registered 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  IN
 BOLD  PRINT  OF  AT LEAST SIXTEEN POINT FONT CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE of
 the days and hours of the ensuing primary  and  general  elections,  the
 place  where  he or she appears by his or her registration records to be
 entitled to vote, AND ALSO IN OTHER THAN BOLD  TYPE  OF  the  fact  that
 voters  who  have  moved  or will have moved from the address where they
 were last registered must either notify the board of elections of his or
 her new address or vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his  or
 her  new  address even if such voter has not re-registered, or otherwise
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06676-02-9

 A. 1385--A                          2
 
 notified the board of elections of the change of address. If the primary
 will not be held on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in Septem-
 ber, the communication shall contain a conspicuous notice in all capital
 letters  and  bold  font notifying the voter of the primary date. If the
 location of the polling place for the voter's election district has been
 moved, the communication shall contain  the  following  legend  in  bold
 type:  "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........".
 The communication shall also  indicate  whether  the  polling  place  is
 accessible  to  physically disabled voters, that a voter who will be out
 of the city or county on the day of the primary or general election or a
 voter who is ill or physically disabled may obtain an  absentee  ballot,
 that  a  physically disabled voter whose polling place is not accessible
 may request that  his  registration  record  be  moved  to  an  election
 district which has a polling place which is accessible, the phone number
 to  call  for applications to move a registration record or for absentee
 ballot applications, the phone number to call for the location of regis-
 tration and polling places, the phone number to call  to  indicate  that
 the  voter is willing to serve on election day as an election inspector,
 poll clerk, interpreter or in other capacities, the phone number to call
 to obtain an application for registration by mail, and such other infor-
 mation concerning  the  elections  or  registration  as  the  board  may
 include.  In  lieu  of  sending  such  communication to every registered
 voter, the board of elections may  send  a  single  communication  to  a
 household  containing  more than one registered voter, provided that the
 names of all such voters appear as part of the address on such  communi-
 cation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.