Provides that a voter may register to vote at any residence to which the voter maintains a continuous connection with an intent to remain, including a second home or a vacation home or a home where a student lives while attending a college or university.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1036
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, LIU, WEBB -- 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 providing that a voter
may register to vote at any residence to which the voter maintains a
continuous connection with an intent to remain
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5-104 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Nothing in this section shall prevent a voter from registering to
4 vote from any residence to which the voter maintains a continuous
5 connection with an intent to remain, including a second or vacation home
6 or home where a student lives while attending a college or university.
7 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the
8 election law, as amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2010, is amended
9 to read as follows:
10 A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this chapter
11 from a residence at which the voter is registered to vote, including any
12 residence to which the voter maintains a continuous connection with an
13 intent to remain such as a second or vacation home or home where a
14 student lives while attending a college or university, if, on the occur-
15 rence of any village election conducted by the board of elections,
16 primary election, special election, general election or New York city
17 community school board district or city of Buffalo school district
18 election, [he or she] such qualified voter expects to be:
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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