Assembly Actions -
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May 21, 2012 |
referred to elections delivered to senate passed assembly |
May 17, 2012 |
advanced to third reading cal.585 |
May 16, 2012 |
reported |
Jan 04, 2012 |
referred to election law |
May 16, 2011 |
referred to election law |
Assembly Bill A7769
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
DINOWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-A7769 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S4911
- Current Committee:
- Senate Elections
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§5-215, 8-400 & 8-404, El L
2011-A7769 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7769 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 16, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to eliminating the refer- ence to "inmate" when referring to residents of veteran's adminis- tration hospitals for purposes of absentee voting THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 5 and 8 of section 5-215 of the election law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 90 of the laws of 1991, subdi- vision 8 as added by chapter 347 of the laws of 1982, and such section as renumbered by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows: 1. The board of elections in the county in which a veterans' hospital is located shall appoint a board of registration which shall attend each veterans' hospital between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening on the seventh Thursday before each general election and, in the event that it be necessary for the completion of its duties, on the seventh Friday before such election except that if any of the religious holidays of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Simchas Torah, Shmini Atzereth or Succoth shall fall on such days, such regis- tration shall be held on the next regular business day which does not fall on any of such religious holidays, and shall receive from [inmates] RESIDENTS or patients therein, or their spouses, parents and children, the applications of such of them as desire and are qualified to be registered by absentee registration. 5. If a Veterans' Administration Hospital in which any veteran enti- tled to vote in this state is [an inmate] A RESIDENT or patient, is located outside the State of New York, an application for an absentee ballot signed by such veteran or his OR HER spouse, parent or child accompanying or being with him OR HER, if a qualified voter and a resi- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11060-02-1
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