New York Assembly Bill A00953 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 953 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT relating to the establishment of voting by mail in the case of a natural disaster or state of emergency The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The state board of elections shall, by September 1, 2023 or 2 30 days after this act shall have become a law, whichever comes first, 3 create a plan that provides for the establishment and use of voting by 4 mail for elections in the case of a natural disaster or state of emer- 5 gency. Such plan shall otherwise comply with all provisions of the 6 election law. For purposes of this section, "voting by mail" shall mean 7 an election for which all eligible voters receive ballots by mail and 8 vote by mailing those ballots, depositing the ballots at, as applicable, 9 drop-off locations or voter service and polling centers, or, as applica- 10 ble, by voting at a voter service and polling center. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02591-01-3