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Assembly Bill A5183

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the state board of elections to create a plan to permit voting by mail in the event of a natural disaster or state of emergency

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2025-A5183 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Elections
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10231
2021-2022: A764
2023-2024: A953

2025-A5183 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the state board of elections to create a plan to permit voting by mail in the event of a natural disaster or state of emergency.

2025-A5183 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5183
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, EACHUS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT relating to the establishment of voting by mail in the case of a
   natural disaster or state of emergency
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The state board of elections shall, by September 1, 2025 or
 30  days  after this act shall have become a law, whichever comes first,
 create a plan that provides for the establishment and use of  voting  by
 mail  for  elections in the case of a natural disaster or state of emer-
 gency.  Such plan shall otherwise comply  with  all  provisions  of  the
 election law.  For purposes of this section, "voting by mail" shall mean
 an  election  for  which all eligible voters receive ballots by mail and
 vote by mailing those ballots, depositing the ballots at, as applicable,
 drop-off locations or voter service and polling centers, or, as applica-
 ble, by voting at a voter service and polling center.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02367-01-5

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