Bill Title: Authorizes absentee voting; defines the term "illness" for the purposes of absentee voting to include instances where a voter who, during a declaration of a state disaster emergency related to an epidemic or disease outbreak declared by the Governor pursuant to section twenty-eight of the executive law, 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 causing illness to the voter or to other members of the public.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-24 - print number 10271a [A10271 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Michael Blake [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-079	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Amy Paulin [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-088	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Nathalia Fernandez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-034	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Brian Barnwell [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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