Assembly Bill A4969

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Clarifies the qualification to receive an absentee ballot and clarifies the process for delivery of an 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-A4969 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-406, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8269
2015-2016: A1979
2017-2018: A1474
2019-2020: A3500
2023-2024: A4358

2021-A4969 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the qualification to receive an absentee ballot; clarifies the process for delivery of an absentee ballot.

2021-A4969 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4969
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, STIRPE, GOODELL -- Multi-Spon-
   sored by -- M.  of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to clarifying the quali-
   fication to receive an absentee ballot and clarifying the process  for
   delivery of an absentee ballot

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 8-406 of the election law, as  amended  by  chapter
 296 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
   §  8-406.  Absentee  ballots,  delivery of. 1. If the board shall find
 that the applicant  is  a  qualified  voter  of  the  election  district
 containing  his  OR  HER residence as stated in his OR HER statement and
 that his OR HER statement is sufficient, it shall, as soon as  practica-
 ble after it shall have determined his OR HER right thereto, mail to him
 OR  HER at [an] THE address [designated by him] FROM WHICH THE APPLICANT
 IS REGISTERED TO VOTE OR A TEMPORARY ADDRESS WHERE HE OR SHE IS CURRENT-
 LY LIVING, or deliver to him OR HER, or to  any  person  designated  for
 such  purpose in writing by him OR HER, at the office of the board, such
 an absentee voter's ballot or set of ballots and an  envelope  therefor.
 NO PERSON MAY BE DESIGNATED TO RECEIVE MORE THAN TWO ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN
 A  GIVEN ELECTION. NO PERSON WHO IS A CANDIDATE IN THE ELECTION IN WHICH
 AN APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED THE ABSENTEE BALLOT MAY BE  A  PERSON  DESIG-
 NATED  TO  RECEIVE  BALLOTS.  If  the  ballot  or ballots are to be sent
 outside of the United States to a country other than Canada  or  Mexico,
 such  ballot or ballots shall be sent by air mail. However, if an appli-
 cant who is eligible for an absentee ballot is a resident of a  facility
 operated or licensed by, or under the jurisdiction of, the department of
 mental hygiene, or a resident of a facility defined as a nursing home or
 residential  health care facility pursuant to subdivisions two and three
 of section two thousand eight hundred one of the public health law, or a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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