Bill Text: NY S04468 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows voters age sixty-five or older to request an absentee ballot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04468 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04468-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4468 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 9, 2023 ___________ 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
