Assembly Bill A3985

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that absentee ballots shall not be mailed or delivered to a voter unless such voter has specifically requested to receive 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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2023-A3985 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-406, El L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A4569

2023-A3985 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that absentee ballots shall not be mailed or delivered to a voter unless such voter has specifically requested to receive an absentee ballot.

2023-A3985 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3985
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the mailing or delivery
   of absentee ballots
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 8-406 of the election law, as
 amended by section 2 of part HH of chapter 55 of the laws  of  2022,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   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 practicable after it shall have determined his OR  HER  right
 thereto,  mail  to him OR HER at an address designated by him OR HER, 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. 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 applicant who is eligible for an absentee ballot
 is a resident of a facility operated or licensed by, or under the juris-
 diction of, the department of mental hygiene, or a resident of a facili-
 ty defined as a nursing home or residential health care facility  pursu-
 ant  to subdivisions two and three of section two thousand eight hundred
 one of the public health law, or a  resident  of  a  hospital  or  other
 facility operated by the [Veteran's Administration of the United States]
 UNITED  STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, such absentee ballot need
 not be so mailed or delivered to any such applicant but, may  be  deliv-
 ered  to  the  voter  in  the manner prescribed by section 8-407 of this
 chapter if such facility is located in the county or city in which  such
 voter is eligible to vote.  NO ABSENTEE BALLOT SHALL BE MAILED OR DELIV-
 ERED  TO  A  VOTER UNLESS SUCH VOTER SPECIFICALLY REQUESTS TO RECEIVE AN
 ABSENTEE BALLOT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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