STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
9650
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2026
___________
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the trans-
mission by mail or personal delivery of a certified copy of the state-
ments of canvassing boards to the state board of elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 9-214 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 286 of the laws of 1983, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 The board of elections shall transmit by mail or cause to be delivered
5 personally to the state board of elections, a certified copy of the
6 statement of the canvassing board relating to the offices of electors of
7 president and vice-president of the United States, United States
8 senator, representatives in congress and state offices, including
9 members of the state senate and assembly, and to the votes cast on any
10 ballot proposal submitted to all the voters of the state, within twen-
11 ty-five days after the election. It is the ministerial and nondiscre-
12 tionary duty of each board of elections, and each of the members of the
13 board of elections, to transmit by mail or cause the certified copy to
14 be delivered personally to the state board of elections. If any certi-
15 fied copy shall not be received by the state board on or before the
16 twenty-fifth day following a general election, or a special election, it
17 shall dispatch a special messenger to obtain such certified copy, and
18 the board of elections, immediately upon demand of such messenger at its
19 office, shall make and deliver a certified copy to such messenger who
20 shall deliver it forthwith to the state board.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14349-02-6
