A05382 Summary:
| BILL NO | A05382 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Cunningham |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §4-122, El L | |
| Requires each county board of elections to notify voters in such county of each candidate to be voted on in each election prior to each such election. | |
A05382 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5382 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to notifying voters of the candidates to be voted on in each election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 4-122 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. Upon publication of the list described in subdivision one of this 4 section, the county board of elections shall email, if a registered 5 voter's email is available to the county board of elections, to every 6 registered voter in the county a postcard containing such list. The 7 board shall also mail at least one physical copy of the postcard to each 8 household with a registered voter in the county. Should the board of 9 elections find it impossible to provide such postcard six days before an 10 election, it shall provide such postcard at the earliest possible day 11 thereafter before such election. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06620-01-5