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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to authorizing United
   States citizens currently residing outside  the  United  States  whose
   last  residence  in  the United States was in the state of New York to
   vote in certain federal elections
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 11-200 of the election law, as
 amended by chapter 99 of the  laws  of  1989,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Every citizen of the United States now residing outside the United
 States whose last domicile in the United  States  immediately  prior  to
 [his]  SUCH  CITIZEN'S departure from the United States was in the state
 of New York, shall be entitled to vote from such  last  domicile,  as  a
 special  federal voter in all primary, special and general elections for
 the public offices or party positions of president and vice-president of
 the United States, United States senator, representative in congress and
 delegates and alternate delegates to  a  national  convention,  provided
 such  citizen,  at  the  time  of such departure from the United States,
 could have met all the present qualifications of this chapter to vote in
 federal elections from such last domicile, except the qualification with
 respect to minimum voting age, even though such  citizen  does  not  now
 maintain  a  place  of  abode  or domicile in the state of New York, and
 provided further that such citizen does not maintain a place of abode or
 domicile, is not registered to vote and  is  not  voting  in  any  other
 election  district[,]  OR  state[, territory or possession of the United
 States] and provided further that such citizen has a valid  passport  or
 card  of  identity  and  registration  issued under the authority of the
 secretary of state of the United States.
   § 2. 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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