STATE OF NEW YORK
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1767
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, SHRESTHA, SHIMSKY, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT, REYES
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to change of enrollment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-304 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 316 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. A change of enrollment received by the board of elections [will
5 take effect immediately, provided however, any change of enrollment
6 received by the board of elections after February fourteenth and before
7 or on seven days after the June primary shall take effect on the seventh
8 day after the June primary] showing a dated cancellation mark of the
9 United States Postal Service, or contained in an envelope showing such a
10 dated cancellation mark which is dated not later than the twenty-fifth
11 day before the next ensuing primary, general, or special election, and
12 received no later than the twentieth day before such election, or deliv-
13 ered in person to such county board of elections not later than the
14 tenth day before a special election, shall have such change of enroll-
15 ment effective for such election. Enrollment changes shall be entered as
16 provided in this article and will be deemed to take effect on the twen-
17 ty-fifth day after such change of enrollment is received by the board of
18 elections or if the change of enrollment, or the envelope containing it,
19 bears a dated cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service,
20 such change shall be entered and will be deemed to take effect on the
21 twenty-fifth day after the date of such mark, whichever is earlier;
22 except that no change will take effect sooner than the twentieth day
23 after the receipt of such change of enrollment by the board of elections
24 except with regard to special elections as provided in this subdivision.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04706-01-5
