STATE OF NEW YORK
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4165
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to preventing munici-
palities from abridging the election law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5-106 of the election law is amended by adding two
2 new subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows:
3 7. No person who does not have the right to register for or vote at
4 any election under the provisions of this chapter and/or the state
5 constitution shall have the right to register for or vote at any
6 election granted to such person by a county, city, town, or village
7 through any action including, but not limited to, any amendment of a
8 municipal charter or passage of any local law.
9 8. No person shall have their right to register for or vote at any
10 election abridged by a county, city, town, or village through any action
11 including, but not limited to, any amendment of a municipal charter or
12 passage of any local law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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