Bill Text: NY A10231 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10231 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Directs the state board of elections to create a plan to permit voting by mail in the event of a natural disaster or state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-08 - print number 10231a [A10231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10231-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10231

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 27, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN  ACT relating to the establishment of voting by mail in the case of a
          natural disaster or state of emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The state board of elections shall, by May 1, 2020, create
     2  a plan that provides for the establishment and use of voting by mail for
     3  elections in the case of a natural disaster or state of emergency.  Such
     4  plan shall otherwise comply with all provisions  of  the  election  law.
     5  For  purposes  of  this section, "voting by mail" shall mean an election
     6  for which all eligible voters receive ballots by mail and vote by  mail-
     7  ing  those  ballots,  depositing the ballots at, as applicable, drop-off
     8  locations or voter service and polling centers, or,  as  applicable,  by
     9  voting at a voter service and polling center.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15987-01-0