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A01385 Summary:

A01385 Actions:

A01385 Committee Votes:

Committee:ELECTION LAW   Chair:Lavine      
DATE:05/01/2019AYE/NAY:16/0  Action: Favorable         
Lavine
Aye
Norris
Aye
Galef
Aye
Brabenec
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Mikulin
Aye
Lentol
Aye
Tague
Aye
Lifton
Aye
Buchwald
Aye
Blake
Aye
Walker
Aye
Carroll
Aye
Taylor
Aye
Jacobson
Aye
D'Urso
Aye

A01385 Floor Votes:

A01385 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1385--B
                                                                Cal. No. 226
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, JACOBSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          ORTIZ  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --
          reported from committee, advanced to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place on the order of third reading
          -- again amended on third reading, ordered  reprinted,  retaining  its
          place on the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the days
          and hours for voting in primary and general elections
 
          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 4-117 of the election law, as
     2  separately amended by chapters 3 and 5 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    1. The board of elections, not less than sixty-five days nor more than
     5  seventy  days  before  the  primary election in each year, shall send by
     6  mail on which is endorsed such language designated by the state board of
     7  elections to ensure postal authorities do  not  forward  such  mail  but
     8  return it to the board of elections with forwarding information, when it
     9  cannot  be  delivered as addressed and which contains a request that any
    10  such mail received for persons not residing at the  address  be  dropped
    11  back in the mail, a communication, in a form approved by the state board
    12  of  elections, to every registered voter who has been registered without
    13  a change of address since the beginning of such year,  except  that  the
    14  board  of elections shall not be required to send such communications to
    15  voters in inactive status. The communication shall notify the  voter  in
    16  bold print contained in such notice of the days and hours of the ensuing
    17  primary  and general elections, the place where he or she appears by his
    18  or her registration records to be entitled to vote, and  also  in  other
    19  than bold type of the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved
    20  from  the address where they were last registered must either notify the
    21  board of elections of his or her new address or vote by paper ballot  at
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06676-04-9
        A. 1385--B                          2
 
     1  the  polling place for his or her new address even if such voter has not
     2  re-registered, or otherwise notified  the  board  of  elections  of  the
     3  change  of address. If the primary will not be held on the first Tuesday
     4  after  the second Monday in September, the communication shall contain a
     5  conspicuous notice in all capital letters and bold  font  notifying  the
     6  voter  of the primary date. If the location of the polling place for the
     7  voter's election  district  has  been  moved,  the  communication  shall
     8  contain  the following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN
     9  CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........". The communication shall also  indi-
    10  cate  whether  the  polling  place  is accessible to physically disabled
    11  voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or county on the day of
    12  the primary or general election or a voter  who  is  ill  or  physically
    13  disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a physically disabled voter
    14  whose  polling place is not accessible may request that his registration
    15  record be moved to an election district which has a polling place  which
    16  is  accessible,  the  phone  number  to  call for applications to move a
    17  registration record or  for  absentee  ballot  applications,  the  phone
    18  number  to call for the location of registration and polling places, the
    19  phone number to call to indicate that the voter is willing to  serve  on
    20  election  day  as  an  election inspector, poll clerk, interpreter or in
    21  other capacities, the phone number to call to obtain an application  for
    22  registration   by  mail,  and  such  other  information  concerning  the
    23  elections or registration as the board may include. In lieu  of  sending
    24  such communication to every registered voter, the board of elections may
    25  send  a  single  communication  to  a household containing more than one
    26  registered voter, provided that the names of all such voters  appear  as
    27  part of the address on such communication.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
    29  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.