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Assembly Bill A9650

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the transmission by mail or personal delivery of a certified copy of the statements of canvassing boards to the state board of elections

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2025-A9650 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9-214, El L

2025-A9650 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a certified copy of the statements of canvassing boards to be transmitted by mail or personal delivery to the state board of elections.

2025-A9650 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9650
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  requiring  the  trans-
   mission by mail or personal delivery of a certified copy of the state-
   ments of canvassing boards to the state board of elections
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section  9-214  of  the
 election  law, as amended by chapter 286 of the laws of 1983, is amended
 to read as follows:
   The board of elections shall transmit by mail or cause to be delivered
 personally to the state board of elections,  a  certified  copy  of  the
 statement of the canvassing board relating to the offices of electors of
 president  and  vice-president  of  the  United  States,  United  States
 senator,  representatives  in  congress  and  state  offices,  including
 members  of  the state senate and assembly, and to the votes cast on any
 ballot proposal submitted to all the voters of the state,  within  twen-
 ty-five  days  after  the election. IT IS THE MINISTERIAL AND NONDISCRE-
 TIONARY DUTY OF EACH BOARD OF ELECTIONS, AND EACH OF THE MEMBERS OF  THE
 BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS, TO TRANSMIT BY MAIL OR CAUSE THE CERTIFIED COPY TO
 BE DELIVERED PERSONALLY TO THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS. If  any  certi-
 fied  copy  shall  not  be  received by the state board on or before the
 twenty-fifth day following a general election, or a special election, it
 shall dispatch a special messenger to obtain such  certified  copy,  and
 the board of elections, immediately upon demand of such messenger at its
 office,  shall  make  and deliver a certified copy to such messenger who
 shall deliver it forthwith to the state board.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14349-02-6

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