Bill Text: NY A03119 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to absentee voting in nursing homes and senior citizen residences; board of inspectors shall deliver and help complete applications for absentee ballots to residents of such facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-12 - reported referred to ways and means [A03119 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3119
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to absentee voting in
         nursing homes and senior citizen residences
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 8-407 of the election law, as
    2  added by chapter 296 of the laws of 1988, is amended and a new  subdivi-
    3  sion 10-a is added to read as follows:
    4    5.  The  board  of elections shall deliver to each board of inspectors
    5  all the absentee ballots in the custody of such board of elections which
    6  are addressed to residents of the facilities which such board of inspec-
    7  tors is assigned to attend, together with AN ADDITIONAL  SUPPLY  OF  THE
    8  APPROPRIATE ABSENTEE BALLOT, ABSENTEE BALLOT ENVELOPES, APPLICATIONS FOR
    9  ABSENTEE  BALLOTS, one or more portable voting booths of a type approved
   10  by the state board of elections and such other supplies as such board of
   11  inspectors will require to discharge its duties properly.
   12    10-A. THE BOARD OF INSPECTORS SHALL  DELIVER  AN  APPLICATION  FOR  AN
   13  ABSENTEE  BALLOT  TO  ANY RESIDENT OF SUCH FACILITY FOR WHOM IT DOES NOT
   14  HAVE AN ABSENTEE BALLOT AND WHO REQUESTS SUCH AN APPLICATION. THE  BOARD
   15  OF  INSPECTORS SHALL ASSIST ANY SUCH RESIDENT WHO REQUESTS ASSISTANCE TO
   16  COMPLETE SUCH APPLICATION. UPON RECEIVING A COMPLETED  APPLICATION  FROM
   17  ANY  RESIDENT, THE BOARD OF INSPECTORS SHALL FORTHWITH DELIVER AN ABSEN-
   18  TEE BALLOT AND BALLOT ENVELOPE TO SUCH VOTER IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED BY
   19  THIS SECTION.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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