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A05797 Summary:
BILL NO | A05797 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S04468 |
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SPONSOR | Epstein |
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COSPNSR | |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §8-400, El L | |
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Allows voters age sixty-five or older to request an absentee ballot. |
A05797 Actions:
BILL NO | A05797 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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03/23/2023 | referred to election law | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/03/2024 | referred to election law |
A05797 Committee Votes:
Go to topA05797 Floor Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
Go to topA05797 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5797 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law 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