Bill Text: NY S09024 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes designating letters for rows and columns on ballots.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2026-06-03 - referred to election law [S09024 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S09024-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9024

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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  removing  designating
          letters on ballots

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 7-104  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  411  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    7. The ballot shall have printed upon it in black ink for  each  party
     5  or  independent  row,  at the head of the column or the beginning of the
     6  row containing the names of candidates, the name of the party  or  inde-
     7  pendent body [and the designating letter of the row or column].
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13920-03-5