Assembly Bill A5629

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes who qualifies as an authorized agent of a voter

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A5629 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§8-400, 8-408 & 17-132, El L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10372

2025-A5629 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes who qualifies as an authorized agent of a voter; prohibits an agent of the voter or authorized agent from receiving no more than five absentee ballots for an election; establishes penalties for failing to deliver a ballot and interfering with a voter's marking of a ballot.

2025-A5629 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5629
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to authorized agents of  a
   voter
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The opening paragraph and paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of
 section 8-400 of the election law, the opening paragraph as  amended  by
 chapter  746 of the laws of 2021 and paragraph (c) as amended by chapter
 481 of the laws of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
   A qualified voter desiring to vote at such  election  as  an  absentee
 voter  for  any  reason  specified  in  subdivision one hereof must make
 application for an absentee ballot on a form to be obtained and filed as
 provided herein, by letter as provided in paragraph (d) of this subdivi-
 sion, or through the electronic absentee ballot application  transmittal
 system  pursuant  to  section  8-408 of this title.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION AN "AGENT OF THE VOTER"  OR  "AUTHORIZED  AGENT"  SHALL
 MEAN  A  PERSON  WHO  IS  A CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER OF SUCH VOTER, SUCH AS A
 SPOUSE, PARENT, CHILD OR SIBLING; MEMBER OF SUCH VOTER'S  HOUSEHOLD;  OR
 HOLDING A POWER OF ATTORNEY EXECUTED BY SUCH QUALIFIED VOTER.
   (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 such election. AN AGENT OF THE
 VOTER OR AUTHORIZED AGENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO  RECEIVING  NO  MORE  THAN
 FIVE ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR SUCH ELECTION.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06686-01-5
 A. 5629                             2

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