NY S00440 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2026-06-02 - PRINT NUMBER 440A
Pending: Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Summary

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

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Title

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2026-04-21 - Senate - Senate Elections Committee Vote (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2026-06-02SenatePRINT NUMBER 440A
2026-06-02SenateAMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
2026-04-21SenateREPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
2026-01-07SenateREFERRED TO ELECTIONS
2025-01-08SenateREFERRED TO ELECTIONS

Same As/Similar To

A02121 (Same As) 2026-06-03 - ordered to third reading rules cal.443

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