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Assembly Bill A7641

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes religious observance as a cause for absentee voting

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2025-A7641 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 2 §2, Constn
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9311
2023-2024: A4204

2025-A7641 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends constitution to authorize religious observance as a cause for absentee voting.

2025-A7641 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7641
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to section 2 of article 2 of the constitution, in
   relation to authorizing religious  observance as a cause for  absentee
   voting

   Section  1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 2 of article
 2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   § 2. The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner  in  which,
 and the time and place at which, qualified voters who, on the occurrence
 of any election, may be absent from the county of their residence or, if
 residents  of  the city of New York, from the city, and qualified voters
 who, on the  occurrence  of  any  election,  may  be  unable  to  appear
 personally  at the polling place because of illness [or], physical disa-
 bility OR RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE, may vote and for the return and  canvass
 of their votes.
   §  2.  Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing be referred
 to the first  regular  legislative  session  convening  after  the  next
 succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in conform-
 ity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be published for 3
 months previous to the time of such election.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD89050-01-5

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