Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ny/2019-2020/s-8370.md

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to providing voters an opportunity to contest challenges to absentee ballots"
+description: "Relates to providing voters an opportunity to cure deficiencies regarding absentee ballots."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "S 8370"
+citation: "New York S 8370 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["MYRIE"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-05-19"
+last_action: "2020-08-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fcb7978-1377-49cc-8d45-abf46c6588e8"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S8370"
+source_hash: "b0adc21aa5cdadfd042e3fd4dd4c768af19a0311b24965ba7b873751c09915fa"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 8370 (2019-2020) — Relates to providing voters an opportunity to contest challenges to absentee ballots
+
+Relates to providing voters an opportunity to cure deficiencies regarding absentee ballots.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S8370** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8370&term=2019&Text=Y)
+2. **S8370A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S8370A)
+3. **S8370B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S8370B)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Rules Vote - Version: B — **12–7** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **103–38** (pass) · lower
+- Elections Vote - Version: B — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote - Version: B — **40–20** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- MYRIE — primary (person)
+- BIAGGI — cosponsor (person)
+- CARLUCCI — cosponsor (person)
+- COMRIE — cosponsor (person)
+- GIANARIS — cosponsor (person)
+- GOUNARDES — cosponsor (person)
+- HOYLMAN — cosponsor (person)
+- LIU — cosponsor (person)
+- MAY — cosponsor (person)
+- RAMOS — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-05-19** REFERRED TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-16** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-07-16** PRINT NUMBER 8370A `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-07-17** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-07-17** PRINT NUMBER 8370B `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-07-21** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.904
+- **2020-07-22** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2020-07-22** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2020-07-22** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10830
+- **2020-07-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.347
+- **2020-07-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2020-07-23** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2020-08-10** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-08-21** SIGNED CHAP.141 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-08-21** APPROVAL MEMO.5
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fcb7978-1377-49cc-8d45-abf46c6588e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+