Bill Text: NY S01632 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows a voter to request an absentee ballot where such person is concerned of contracting or spreading a disease that may cause illness to the voter or to other members of the public.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01632 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01632-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1632 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee voting at village elections; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof 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 15-120 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 289 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. A qualified voter of a village may vote as an absentee voter under 5 this section if during all the hours of voting on the day of a general 6 or special village election he or she will be: 7 (a) absent from the county of his or her residence; or 8 (b) unable to appear at the polling place because of illness or phys- 9 ical disability, or duties related to the primary care of one or more 10 individuals who are ill or physically disabled, or because he or she 11 will be or is a patient in a hospital, provided that, for purposes of 12 this paragraph, "illness" shall include, but not be limited to, 13 instances where a voter is unable to appear personally at the polling 14 place of the election district in which they are a qualified voter 15 because there is a risk of contracting or spreading a disease that may 16 cause illness to the voter or to other members of the public; or 17 (c) an inmate or patient of a veteran's administration hospital; or 18 (d) absent from his or her voting residence because he or she is 19 detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or 20 confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other than 21 a felony, provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election 22 district of his or her residence. 23 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 15-122 of the election law is amended to 24 read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07925-01-1S. 1632 2 1 1. A qualified elector of a village, who, on the occurrence of any 2 general or special village election, may be within the county of his or 3 her residence but unable to appear personally at the polling place in 4 the village of his or her residence because of illness, physical disa- 5 bility or confinement either at home or in a hospital or institution, 6 other than a mental institution may vote as an absentee voter under this 7 section, provided that, for purposes of this subdivision, "illness" 8 shall include, but not be limited to, instances where a voter is unable 9 to appear personally at the polling place of the election district in 10 which they are a qualified voter because there is a risk of contracting 11 or spreading a disease that may cause illness to the voter or to other 12 members of the public. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 14 deemed repealed January 1, 2022.
