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Assembly Bill A5059

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that subpoenas relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued

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2025-A5059 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4482
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16-102, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8568
2019-2020: S2099
2021-2022: A7834, S215
2023-2024: A1176, S2298

2025-A5059 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

2025-A5059 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5059
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, EACHUS, GIBBS, REYES, LEVENBERG -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring that subpoe-
   nas relating to election matters be served with  a  separate  informa-
   tional sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 16-102 of the election law is amended by  adding  a
 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  A SUBPOENA ISSUED IN RELATION TO THIS ARTICLE SHALL REQUIRE THAT
 THE SUBPOENA BE SERVED WITH A SEPARATE INFORMATIONAL SHEET  THAT  SUMMA-
 RIZES  WHY THE SUBPOENA HAS BEEN ISSUED, THAT THE CASE IS NOT RELATED TO
 A CRIMINAL ACTION, THAT THE PERSON TO WHOM THE SUBPOENA IS BEING  SERVED
 DOES  NOT  CURRENTLY  FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES RELATED TO THE CASE, SPECIFY
 THAT THE ACTION IS RELATED TO THE UPCOMING  ELECTION  OF  THE  PERTINENT
 OFFICE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT FOLLOWING THE SUBPOENA.  THE INFORMA-
 TIONAL  SHEET SHALL BE AFFIXED TO THE SUBPOENA BEING SERVED AND SHALL BE
 WRITTEN IN PLAIN LANGUAGE AND PRINTED IN A FORMAT AND TYPE SIZE THAT  IS
 CLEAR AND EASY TO READ.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01386-01-5

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