Bill Text: NY S06020 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6020 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-06-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [S06020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S06020-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6020
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 19, 2009
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       Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (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    S 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    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD12098-01-9