STATE OF NEW YORK
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4413
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2017
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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 of
6 elections, primary election, special election, general election or New
7 York city community school board district or city of Buffalo school
8 district election, he or she expects to be:
9 (a) absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a resident
10 of the city of New York absent from said city; or
11 (b) unable to appear personally at the polling place of the election
12 district in which he or she is a qualified voter because of illness or
13 physical disability or duties related to the primary care of one or more
14 individuals who are ill or physically disabled, or because he or she
15 will be or is a patient in a hospital; or
16 (c) a resident or patient of a veterans health administration hospi-
17 tal; 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] 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.
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