S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9235
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
November 7, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to removing the preclear-
ance requirement from certain counties
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 17-210 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 216 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as
follows:
3. Covered entity. A "covered entity" shall include: (a) any political
subdivision which, within the previous twenty-five years, has become
subject to a court order or government enforcement action based upon a
finding of any violation of this title, the federal voting rights act,
the fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution, or a voting-
related violation of the fourteenth amendment to the United States
constitution; (b) any political subdivision which, within the previous
twenty-five years, has become subject to at least three court orders or
government enforcement actions based upon a finding of any violation of
any state or federal civil rights law or the fourteenth amendment to the
United States constitution concerning discrimination against members of
a protected class; (c) [any county in which, based on data provided by
the division of criminal justice services, the combined misdemeanor and
felony arrest rate of voting age members of any protected class consist-
ing of at least ten thousand citizens of voting age or whose members
comprise at least ten percent of the citizen voting age population of
the county, exceeds the proportion that the protected class constitutes
of the citizen voting age population of the county as a whole by at
least twenty percentage points at any point within the previous ten
years; (d)] any political subdivision in which, based on data made
available by the United States census, the dissimilarity index of any
protected class consisting of at least twenty-five thousand citizens of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13674-01-5
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