Senate Bill S1776

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes early voting sites to be placed at at least one city in a county, or if there is no city in such county, the county seat

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S1776 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-600, El L

2025-S1776 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes early voting sites to be placed at at least one city in a county, or if there is no city in such county, the county seat.

2025-S1776 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1776 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1776
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
 
 AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  early
   voting  sites  to  be  placed  at at least one city in a county, or if
   there is no city in such county, the county seat

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (b)  [The  largest] AT LEAST ONE city in the county or, if there is no
 city in the county, the municipality with the highest population in each
 county based on the latest federal decennial census OR THE COUNTY  SEAT,
 or the county seat in Washington county, shall have at least one polling
 place designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable if such
 city  or  municipality  has  public  transportation routes, such polling
 place shall be situated along such transportation routes.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05116-01-5

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