Bill Text: NY S03025 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03025-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3025

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  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 ballots for the  election  district  in  which  the
     9  facility  is located, absentee ballot envelopes, applications for absen-
    10  tee ballots, one or more portable voting booths of a  type  approved  by
    11  the  state  board  of elections and such other supplies as such board of
    12  inspectors will require to discharge its duties properly.
    13    10-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8-402 of  this  title,
    14  the  board  of  inspectors  shall deliver an application for an absentee
    15  ballot to any resident of such facility for whom it  does  not  have  an
    16  absentee  ballot  and  who  requests  such  an application. The board of
    17  inspectors shall assist any such resident  who  requests  assistance  to
    18  complete  such  application. Upon receiving a completed application from
    19  any resident who is registered to vote at the  facility,  the  board  of
    20  inspectors  shall forthwith deliver an absentee ballot and ballot envel-
    21  ope to such voter in the  manner  prescribed  by  this  section.    With
    22  respect to the application of any resident of the facility who is regis-
    23  tered  to vote from an election district other than the one in which the
    24  facility is located, the board of inspectors, if  it  does  not  have  a
    25  supply of the appropriate ballot, shall forthwith obtain the appropriate

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04698-01-3
        S. 3025                             2

     1  ballot  from the board of elections and deliver such ballot and envelope
     2  to such voter in the manner prescribed by this section.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.