Expands voter registration to include registration by any agency or entity that accepts an application or collects a fee in exchange for a government or educational service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4410
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BOLOGNA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to expanding voter regis-
tration to include registration by certain agencies or entities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 5-900 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 13. (a) Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-three, designated
5 agencies for purposes of this section shall include the department of
6 motor vehicles.
7 (b) Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-four, designated
8 agencies for the purposes of this section shall also include:
9 (i) the department of health, the office of temporary and disability
10 assistance, the department of labor, the office of adult career and
11 continuing education services - vocational rehabilitation, county and
12 city departments of social services, and the New York city housing
13 authority[, as well as];
14 (ii) any other agency or entity that accepts an application or
15 collects a fee in exchange for a government or educational service,
16 which includes but is not limited to the following:
17 (A) the department of agriculture and markets;
18 (B) the department of taxation and finance;
19 (C) the department of environmental conservation;
20 (D) the department of financial services;
21 (E) the state insurance fund;
22 (F) the office of the professions;
23 (G) the division of licensing services;
24 (H) the empire state development corporation;
25 (I) the state liquor authority;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (J) the state workers' compensation board;
2 (K) the division of military and naval affairs;
3 (L) the office of real property tax services and local assessors;
4 (M) public and private colleges and universities and career and voca-
5 tional schools; and
6 (N) any municipal offices processing pistol permits, birth, marriage
7 or death certificates, hunting and fishing licenses, building permits
8 and economic development applications.
9 (iii) any other agency designated by the governor.
10 [Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-five, designated agen-
11 cies for the purposes of this section shall also include the state
12 university of New York.]
13 (c) Each designated agency shall enter into an agreement with the
14 state board of elections finalizing the format and content of electronic
15 transmissions required by this section. The state board of elections
16 shall prepare and distribute to designated agencies written instructions
17 as to the implementation of the program and shall be responsible for
18 establishing training programs for employees of designated agencies
19 listed in this section. Such instructions and such training shall ensure
20 usability of the integrated application for low English proficiency
21 voters. Any such designated agency shall take all actions that are
22 necessary and proper for the implementation of this section, including
23 facilitating technological capabilities to allow transmission of data
24 through an interface with the electronic voter registration transmittal
25 system in a secure manner.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
