S05399 Summary:
| BILL NO | S05399 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S07077 |
| SPONSOR | FUNKE |
| COSPNSR | COMRIE, SQUADRON |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd S11-302, El L | |
| Provides that election workers shall be given special ballots any time up until the close of polls on election day. | |
S05399 Actions:
| BILL NO | S05399 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 05/14/2015 | REFERRED TO ELECTIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/01/2015 | 1ST REPORT CAL.1122 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/02/2015 | 2ND REPORT CAL. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/03/2015 | ADVANCED TO THIRD READING | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/25/2015 | COMMITTED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/06/2016 | REFERRED TO ELECTIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 03/22/2016 | RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5399 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- 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 special ballots for board of elections employees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11-302 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 163 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 11-302. Special ballots for board of election employees. A person 4 who is an employee of the board of elections or who has been appointed 5 to serve as an inspector of elections, poll clerk or election coordina- 6 tor at a polling place other than the one at which he or she is regis- 7 tered to vote, may deliver to the inspectors of election of the election 8 district in which he or she is registered, or to the board of elections, 9 at any time during the period in which an application for an absentee 10 ballot may be so delivered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, a 11 written statement that he or she will be unable to appear at the polling 12 place for such election district on the day of an election because his 13 or her duties as an employee of such board or as an inspector, poll 14 clerk or election coordinator require him or her to be elsewhere. The 15 board of elections shall provide such voter a special ballot [not earli-16er than two weeks before the election and not later than] any time prior 17 to the close of the polls on election day and make ballots available at 18 the board of elections or at any training sessions for election employ- 19 ees and appointees, provided however that the availability and distrib- 20 ution of such ballots to such voters shall be timed to afford such 21 voters sufficient time to cast such ballots prior to the close of the 22 polls on election day. Such [cast ballots may be delivered to an office23of such board of elections or to any board of inspectors not later than24the close of the polls on election day] ballots shall be voted in the 25 offices of the board of elections, and returned to the board on the day EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06315-03-5S. 5399 2 1 they are issued. For the purposes of this chapter, the offices of the 2 board of elections shall include any facility utilized for the training 3 of elections inspectors and other election day personnel. Such ballots 4 shall be retained at the board of elections and cast and canvassed 5 pursuant to the provisions of section 9-209 of this chapter. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.