Bill Text: NY A00284 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 591 A. 284 2019-2020 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ 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 not11be opened until the first Tuesday following such general election. Such12change 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