Bill Text: NY S04413 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes any qualified voter to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04413 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04413-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4413 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 14, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- 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 authorizing any quali- fied voter to request an absentee ballot 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 of6elections, primary election, special election, general election or New7York city community school board district or city of Buffalo school8district election, he or she expects to be:9(a) absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a resident10of the city of New York absent from said city; or11(b) unable to appear personally at the polling place of the election12district in which he or she is a qualified voter because of illness or13physical disability or duties related to the primary care of one or more14individuals who are ill or physically disabled, or because he or she15will be or is a patient in a hospital; or16(c) a resident or patient of a veterans health administration hospi-17tal; or18(d) absent from his or her voting residence because he or she is19detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or20confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other than21a felony, provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election22district of his or her residence] under any circumstance. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09393-01-7