Bill Text: NY A10203 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes absentee voting; defines the term "illness" for the purposes of absentee voting to include the spread or potential spread of any communicable disease, at a time of declaration of a state of emergency within the jurisdiction where the election is taking place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-30 - enacting clause stricken [A10203 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10203-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10203--A IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee voting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2010, paragraph (c) as amended by 3 chapter 375 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 4 1. A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this chapter 5 if, on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of 6 elections, primary election, special election, general election or New 7 York city community school board district or city of Buffalo school 8 district election, he or she expects to be: 9 (a) absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a resident 10 of the city of New York absent from said city; or 11 (b) unable to appear personally at the polling place of the election 12 district in which he or she is a qualified voter because of illness or 13 physical disability or duties related to the primary care of one or more 14 individuals who are ill or physically disabled, or because he or she 15 will be or is a patient in a hospital. For purposes of this paragraph, 16 the term "illness" shall include the spread or potential spread of any 17 communicable disease, at a time of declaration of a state of emergency 18 within the jurisdiction where the election is taking place; or 19 (c) a resident or patient of a veterans health administration hospi- 20 tal; or 21 (d) absent from his or her voting residence because he or she is 22 detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or 23 confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other than 24 a felony, provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election 25 district of his or her residence. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15746-05-0
