Bill Text: NY S07363 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the postmark date for change of enrollment; dated cancellation mark 25 days before the election and received no later than the 20th day before the general election.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07363 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S07363-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7363 IN SENATE January 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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 the postmark date for change of enrollment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-304 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 90 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. A change of enrollment showing a dated cancellation mark of the 5 United States Post Office or contained in an envelope showing such a 6 dated cancellation mark which is not later than the twenty-fifth day 7 before the general election and received by the board of elections not 8 later than the [twenty-fifth] twentieth day before the general election 9 shall be deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which shall not be opened 10 until the first Tuesday following such general election. Such change of 11 enrollment shall be then removed and entered as provided in this arti- 12 cle. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13850-01-7