STATE OF NEW YORK
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4468
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing voters age
sixty-five or older to request an absentee ballot
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2010, is amended
3 and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:
4 (d) absent from his or her voting residence because he or she is
5 detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or
6 confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other than
7 a felony, provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election
8 district of his or her residence[.]; or
9 (e) sixty-five years of age or older on the date of such election.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06614-01-3
