A11119 • 2025

Relates to establishing enhanced attendance verification procedures for members of the legislature

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Sponsor: David DiPietro
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to establishing enhanced attendance verification procedures for members of the legislature

Relates to establishing enhanced attendance verification procedures for members of the legislature Requires legislative members to verify attendance on legislative session days via an identification card system and facial recognition technology.

What This Bill Does

Relates to establishing enhanced attendance verification procedures for members of the legislature Requires legislative members to verify attendance on legislative session days via an identification card system and facial recognition technology.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to establishing enhanced attendance verification procedures for members of the legislature
Requires legislative members to verify attendance on legislative session days via an identification card system and facial recognition technology.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11119

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law,  in  relation to establishing
          enhanced attendance verification procedures for members of the  legis-
          lature

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section  5-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  5-C.  VERIFICATION OF LEGISLATIVE ATTENDANCE. 1. ALL MEMBERS OF THE
     4  NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY AND SENATE SHALL VERIFY THEIR  DAILY  ATTENDANCE
     5  IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CHAMBERS ON LEGISLATIVE SESSION DAYS THROUGH A BIOM-
     6  ETRIC  FACIAL  RECOGNITION SYSTEM INTEGRATED WITH AN IDENTIFICATION CARD
     7  PROCESS IN EACH LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER.  EACH  MEMBER  OF  THE  LEGISLATURE
     8  SHALL  BE  REQUIRED  TO  OFFICIALLY  REGISTER  THEIR ATTENDANCE FOR EACH
     9  LEGISLATIVE SESSION DAY. MEMBERS SHALL REGISTER  ATTENDANCE  NO  EARLIER
    10  THAN NINETY MINUTES PRIOR TO THE OFFICIAL CONVENING OF THE SESSION.
    11    2.  IDENTIFICATION  CARD READERS SHALL BE LOCATED WITHIN EACH LEGISLA-
    12  TIVE CHAMBER AND SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH FACIAL  RECOGNITION  TECHNOLOGY.
    13  UPON USING OR PRESENTING THEIR OFFICIAL IDENTIFICATION CARD, A CONTEMPO-
    14  RANEOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE INDIVIDUAL SHALL BE CAPTURED AND USED TO VERI-
    15  FY THAT THE PERSON USING THE CARD IS THE DULY ELECTED MEMBER.
    16    3.  ONLY  THE ELECTED MEMBER TO WHOM THE IDENTIFICATION CARD IS ISSUED
    17  MAY USE SUCH CARD TO REGISTER ATTENDANCE. ANY USE BY ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL,
    18  INCLUDING STAFF, SHALL BE PROHIBITED.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15630-01-6