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S05990 Summary:

BILL NO	S05990
SAME AS	SAME AS A03367-A, SAME AS S06020
SPONSOR	KLEIN
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd S8-400, El L
Provides that people who are primary care givers and who have responsibilities in which they cannot leave the person for whom they are caring shall be entitled to absentee ballots in general elections and school district elections.

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S05990 Actions:

BILL NO	S05990
06/19/2009	REFERRED TO RULES
07/16/2009	ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.934
07/16/2009	SUBSTITUTED BY A3367A
	A03367 AMEND=A Englebright (MS)
	01/27/2009	referred to election law
	03/17/2009	amend (t) and recommit to election law
	03/17/2009	print number 3367a
	06/10/2009	reported referred to rules
	06/15/2009	reported
	06/15/2009	rules report cal.229
	06/15/2009	ordered to third reading rules cal.229
	06/15/2009	passed assembly
	06/16/2009	delivered to senate
	06/15/2009	REFERRED TO RULES
	07/16/2009	SUBSTITUTED FOR S5990
	07/16/2009	3RD READING CAL.934
	07/16/2009	PASSED SENATE
	07/16/2009	RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
	09/04/2009	delivered to governor
	09/16/2009	signed chap.426

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S05990 Floor Votes:

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S05990 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5990
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 19, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. KLEIN -- (at request of the Governor) -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  absentee  voting  for
          primary care givers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-

        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1  of  section  8-400  of  the
     2  election law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (c)  unable  to appear personally at the polling place of the election
     4  district in which he or she is a qualified voter because of  illness  or
     5  physical  disability,  whether permanent or temporary, or duties related
     6  to the primary care of one or more individuals who are ill or physically
     7  disabled, or because he or she will be or is a patient in a hospital; or
     8    § 2.  Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of  section
     9  8-400 of the election law is amended to read as follows:
    10    (iii)  [ill  or  physically  disabled; that he has been advised by his
    11  medical practitioner or  christian  science  practitioner,  giving  said

    12  practitioner's  name  and address, that he will not be able to go to his
    13  polling place for such election, and whether said illness  is  permanent
    14  or temporary; if he expects to be a patient in a hospital he shall state
    15  the  name  and  address  of said hospital] unable to appear at a polling
    16  place because of illness or physical disability or duties related to the
    17  primary care of one or more individuals who are ill or physically  disa-
    18  bled; or
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
        S                                                          LBD05509-05-9

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