Bill Text: NY A00284 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes a registered voter to change his or her address up to 10 days before a primary, special or general election; and authorizes a registered voter to change his or her party affiliation up to 25 days before a primary, special or general election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A00284 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00284-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 591                                                    A. 284
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sen.  CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Elections
        IN  ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, DICKENS, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED,
          D'URSO, SEAWRIGHT, HYNDMAN, NIOU -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.
          THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law,  in  relation to authorizing the
          provision of notice of a change of address ten days before an election
          and authorizing the change of  party  affiliation  within  twenty-five
          days of an election
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-208  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3.  If  such  a notice is received at least [twenty] ten days before a
     4  primary, special or general election, such change  of  address  must  be
     5  completed before such election.
     6    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 5-304 of the election law, as amended by
     7  chapter 90 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
     8    3. A change of enrollment received by the board of elections not later
     9  than  the  twenty-fifth  day  before [the] a primary, special or general
    10  election shall be [deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which shall not
    11  be opened until the first Tuesday following such general election.  Such
    12  change  of  enrollment  shall  be  then removed and] entered before such
    13  election as provided in this article.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01950-01-9