This bill aims to facilitate the voting process for qualified voters who are incarcerated for reasons other than a conviction for an indictable offense. It mandates that the Secretary of State, in collaboration with the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, provide these voters with an application for a mail-in ballot. The application will allow voters to request a mail-in ballot and specify their current detention or incarceration address as a secondary address for ballot delivery. The bill ensures that if a voter is transferred to another location after requesting a mail-in ballot, the Department of Corrections will ensure the ballot is delivered to them, while clarifying that this does not make the department or its employees messengers under existing law.

Importantly, the bill maintains the current legal framework that disqualifies individuals incarcerated due to a conviction for an indictable offense from voting. It explicitly states that any mail-in ballot sent to or received from a person who is later convicted of an indictable offense will be deemed void and not counted. The bill is set to take effect on January 1 following its enactment.