Bill Text: NY S08004 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8004 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the board of elections to provide a return postage guaranteed envelope with absentee ballots.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-09 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S08004 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08004-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8004

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 absentee ballots

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  8-406 of the election law, as amended by chapter
     2  296 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 8-406. Absentee ballots, delivery of. If the board shall  find  that
     4  the  applicant  is a qualified voter of the election district containing
     5  his residence as stated in his  statement  and  that  his  statement  is
     6  sufficient,  it shall, as soon as practicable after it shall have deter-
     7  mined his right thereto, mail to him at an address designated by him, or
     8  deliver to him, or to any person designated for such purpose in  writing
     9  by  him,  at the office of the board, such an absentee voter's ballot or
    10  set of ballots and [an] a return postage guaranteed  envelope  therefor.
    11  If  the ballot or ballots are to be sent outside of the United States to
    12  a country other than Canada or Mexico, such ballot or ballots  shall  be
    13  sent by air mail. However, if an applicant who is eligible for an absen-
    14  tee ballot is a resident of a facility operated or licensed by, or under
    15  the  jurisdiction of, the department of mental hygiene, or a resident of
    16  a facility defined as a nursing home or residential health care facility
    17  pursuant to subdivisions two and three of  section  two  thousand  eight
    18  hundred  one  of  the  public health law, or a resident of a hospital or
    19  other facility operated by the Veteran's Administration  of  the  United
    20  States,  such  absentee ballot need not be so mailed or delivered to any
    21  such applicant but,  may  be  delivered  to  the  voter  in  the  manner
    22  prescribed  by section 8-407 of this [chapter] title if such facility is
    23  located in the county or city in which such voter is eligible to vote.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00718-01-9