Assembly Bill A5043

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A5043 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10537
2021-2022: A4188
2023-2024: A1111

2025-A5043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election.

2025-A5043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5043
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN, EACHUS, REYES -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an
   application for an absentee ballot to the board of  elections  through
   and on the day of the election

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-400  of  the
 election  law, as amended by chapter 481 of the laws of 2023, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (c) All applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail or  through
 the  electronic  absentee  ballot application transmittal system must be
 received by the board of elections not later than the tenth  day  before
 the  election for which a ballot is first requested. Applications for an
 absentee ballot that will  be  delivered  in  person  at  the  board  of
 elections  to  the voter or to an agent of the voter must be received by
 such board not later than the day [before] OF such election.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03992-01-5

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