Bill Text: NY S03191 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3191

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits early voting on federal holidays; adds an additional day to the early voting period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-24 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03191-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3191

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 prohibiting early
          voting on federal holidays

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 8-600 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Beginning the tenth day prior  to  any  general,  primary,  run-off
     4  primary  pursuant to subdivision one of section 6-162 of this chapter or
     5  special election for any public or party position  except  for  such  an
     6  election held pursuant to title two of article six or article fifteen of
     7  this  chapter,  and ending on and including the second day prior to such
     8  general, primary, run-off primary or special election  for  such  public
     9  office  or  party position, persons duly registered and eligible to vote
    10  at such election shall be permitted to vote as provided in  this  title.
    11  Where  such early voting period includes a federal holiday, early voting
    12  shall be prohibited on such federal holiday and the board  of  elections
    13  shall  add  an  additional  day to the early voting period. The board of
    14  elections shall establish procedures, subject to approval of  the  state
    15  board  of  elections,  to  ensure that persons who vote during the early
    16  voting period shall not be permitted to vote subsequently  in  the  same
    17  election.
    18    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the same date as the reversion of
    19  subdivision 1 of section 8-600  of  the  election  law  as  provided  in
    20  section 18 of chapter 474 of the laws of 2023, as amended.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00646-02-5