Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6.

ABSENTEE VOTING Present law requires the county election commission to establish a permanent absentee voting register for any person who is, because of sickness, hospitalization or physical disability unable to appear at either the commission office or at the person's polling place for the purpose of voting. To be eligible for placement on the register, a voter must file a statement by the person's licensed physician with the county election commission stating, under the penalty of perjury, that in the physician's professional medical judgment, the patient ("voter") is medically unable to appear at the polling place to vote and is medically unable to go to the commission office for the purpose of early voting. The voter must file the physician's statement and the application not less than seven days before the election. The administrator of elections must attach the physician's statement to the voter's permanent registration record. Without any further request, the administrator must send to each person placed on the permanent absentee voting register an application for an absentee ballot for each election in which the person may vote. This bill changes the present law by requiring, instead, the voter to file the physician's statement and the application not less than 10 days before the election. Present law requires a voter who desires to vote absentee to request an absentee ballot not more than 90 and not later than seven days before the election. This bill changes the present law by requiring, instead, a voter who desires to vote absentee to request an absentee ballot not later than 10 days before the election. Present law prohibits an administrator from processing an application for a ballot received after the seventh day before an election. This bill changes the present law by prohibiting, instead, an administrator from processing an application for a ballot received after the tenth day before an election Present law requires an application for an absentee ballot for armed forces personnel temporarily outside the U.S. to be received in the county election commission office of the county in which the applicant is a resident not later than seven days before the election and not earlier than January 1 of the year in which the election is to be held. However, in the event an election is to be held less than 90 days after January 1 of any calendar year, applications may be received not earlier than 90 days before the election in which the applicant desires to vote. This bill changes the present law by requiring, instead, an application for an absentee ballot for armed forces personnel temporarily outside the U.S. to be received in the county election commission office of the county in which the applicant is a resident not later than 10 days before the election. This bill takes effect November 6, 2024.