---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20309"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20309"
heading: "Effect on certain other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20309"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 203 — Registration and Voting by Absent Uniformed Services Voters and Overseas Voters in Elections for Federal Office"
---

# §20309. Effect on certain other laws


The exercise of any right under this chapter shall not affect, for purposes of any Federal, [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5), or local tax, the residence or domicile of a person exercising such right.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–410, title I, § 106, Aug. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 927.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973ff–5 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.