 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1777
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 13, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, ROSENTHAL, COOK, ABINANTI --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD03597-01-7
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