STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
6735--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 8, 2023
___________
Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing pre-registered
voters to apply for an absentee or early mail ballot
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5-102 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. A person who is pre-registered to vote pursuant to section 5-507
4 of this article, and who is or will be eighteen years of age or over on
5 the day of such election at the time such ballot is cast and counted,
6 shall be considered a qualified voter for the purposes of absentee
7 voting and early mail voting as set forth in titles four and seven of
8 article eight of this chapter.
9 § 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdi-
10 vision, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
11 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
12 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
13 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
14 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
15 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
16 the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if such
17 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06581-03-3
