Senate Bill S2306

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Improves the issuing of absentee ballots

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

  • 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-S2306 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7979
2021-2022: S306

2023-S2306 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Improves the issuing of absentee ballots.

2023-S2306 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2306
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. MYRIE, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KRUEGER, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Elections
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to improving  the  issuing
   of absentee ballots
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 8-400 of
 the election law, as separately amended by chapters 273 and 746  of  the
 laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
   (c)  All applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail or through
 the electronic absentee ballot application transmittal  system  must  be
 received  by  the  board of elections not later than the [fifteenth] day
 before the election for which a ballot is first requested. [Applications
 for an absentee ballot that will be delivered in person at the board  of
 elections  to  the voter or to an agent of the voter must be received by
 such board not later than the day before such election.]
   (d) The board of elections shall mail  an  absentee  ballot  to  every
 qualified  voter otherwise eligible for such a ballot, who requests such
 an absentee ballot from such board of elections in writing in a  letter,
 telefax  OR OTHER WRITTEN INSTRUMENT CONTAINING A SIGNATURE OF THE VOTER
 indicating the address, phone number and the telefax number  from  which
 the  writing  is  sent  or  other  written instrument, [or an electronic
 application submitted by  the  voter  through  the  electronic  absentee
 ballot  application transmittal system established by the state board of
 elections,] which is signed by the voter and received by  the  board  of
 elections  not  EARLIER THAN THE THIRTIETH DAY, IF SAID ABSENTEE BALLOTS
 HAVE BEEN PREPARED OR IMMEDIATELY UPON THEIR RECEIPT  BY  THE  BOARD  OF
 ELECTIONS,  NOR  later  than the [fifteenth] day before the election for
 which the ballot is first requested and which states the  address  where
 the  voter  is  registered  and the address to which the ballot is to be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04067-01-3

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