Assembly Bill A6598

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the age requirement for voting in a primary election

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A6598 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3232
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5-102, El L

2025-A6598 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the age requirement for voting in a primary election; provides that a person who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.

2025-A6598 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6598
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROZIC, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the age requirement for
   voting in a primary election
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  5-102 of the election law is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. No person shall be qualified  to  register  for  and  vote  at  any
 election  unless  [he] SUCH PERSON is a citizen of the United States and
 is or will be, on the day of such election, eighteen  years  of  age  or
 over,  and  a  resident of this state and of the county, city or village
 for a minimum of thirty days next  preceding  such  election;  PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER,  THAT  A  PERSON WHO IS SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF A
 PRIMARY ELECTION AND WHO WILL BE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AT  THE  TIME  OF
 THE  GENERAL  ELECTION FOR WHICH SUCH PRIMARY  ELECTION  IS  HELD, SHALL
 BE  ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN SUCH PRIMARY ELECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  as  a  "CONCURRENT
 RESOLUTION  OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section
 1 of article 2 of the constitution, in relation to the qualifications of
 voters" takes effect. Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04964-01-5

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