Assembly Bill A10541

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows qualified voters who are primary caregivers of one or more individuals to vote by absentee ballot

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A10541 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§8-400 & 15-122, El L

2021-A10541 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows qualified voters who are primary caregivers of one or more individuals to vote by absentee ballot regardless of whether the individuals cared for are ill or physically disabled.

2021-A10541 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10541
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Kelles) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  allowing  qualified
   voters  who  are primary caregivers of one or more individuals to vote
   by absentee ballot
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 139 of the laws of 2020, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (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, provided that,  for  purposes  of
 this  paragraph,  "illness"  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,
 instances where a voter is unable to appear personally  at  the  polling
 place  of  the  election  district  in  which they are a qualified voter
 because there is a risk of contracting or spreading a disease  that  may
 cause illness to the voter or to other members of the public; or
   §  2.  Paragraph (b) of 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:
   (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
   §  3.  Subdivision 1 of section 15-122 of the election law, as amended
 by chapter 2 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   1. A qualified elector of a village, who, on  the  occurrence  of  any
 general  or  special village election, may be within the county of [his]
 SUCH ELECTOR'S residence but unable to appear personally at the  polling
 place  in  the  village  of  [his]  SUCH  ELECTOR'S residence because of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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