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BILL NUMBER:S4168
Title of bill
An act to amend the election law, in relation to absentee ballots for patients or inmates of Veteran Administration medical facilities
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill provides that local boards of elections canvass patients at Veterans' Health Administration extended care centers in order to properly provide absentee ballots where necessary.
Justification
Current Election Law provides for absentee voting by patients in Veterans' Health Administration facilities if they are residents of the same election district as the facility and they are hospitalized sixty days prior to Election Day. This is acceptable for extended-care facilities which are the functional equivalent of nursing homes. Residents in an extended-care facility are there on a long-term basis and are considered residents of the election district in which the medical facility is located. However, this is inadequate for the needs of Veterans' Health Administration acute-care facilities because their patients are usually in the facility for a short period of time and need to vote from their home election district.
In addition, almost all patients hospitalized at Veterans' Health Administration acute-care facilities are admitted to the facility well short of sixty days prior to Election Day. Therefore, it is necessary to require that the local board of elections where a Veterans' Health Administration acute-care facility is located be required to canvass the patients at said facility on the morning before Election Day. It is necessary to obtain emergency-affidavit ballots from the board of elections where the patients reside and to conduct voting at the facility on Election Day.
Prior legislative history
2006: Senate Elections Committee/Assembly Elections Law 2007-08: Senate Rules Committee/Assembly Elections Law 2009-10: S.3227 Advanced to Third Reading
Fiscal implications
Fiscal impact is expected to be negligible; however, in the thirteen counties which will be affected by this legislation some additional staff resources will have to be devoted to obtaining and canvassing additional ballots.
Effective date
Immediately.
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