S2050 • 2025

Relates to the terms of office of commissioners of elections

Elections

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Sponsor: Lea Webb
Last action: 2026-05-04
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the terms of office of commissioners of elections

Relates to the terms of office of commissioners of elections Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the terms of office of commissioners of elections Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.

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Bill History

2026-05-04 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-04 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW
2026-04-27 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-04-22 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-04-21 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.791
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ELECTIONS
2025-03-12 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-03-12 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-03-12 Assembly
REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW
2025-02-12 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-02-11 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-02-10 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.295
2025-01-15 Senate
REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to the terms of office of commissioners of elections
Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.

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

                                          2050

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the terms of office  of
          election commissioners

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  3-202  of  the  election  law  is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  The term of office of an election commissioner shall be [two] FOUR
     4  years beginning January first of each odd numbered year [except that  in
     5  the  city  of  New  York and the county of Schenectady the term shall be
     6  four years beginning on January first of  each  alternate  odd  numbered
     7  year. The county legislative body of any other county may determine that
     8  the  commissioners  of  elections thereafter appointed shall serve for a
     9  term of four years. Such determination may be rescinded by a  subsequent
    10  action  of  the  county  legislative body which shall take effect at the
    11  expiration of the terms of the commissioners then in office].
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
    13  elections occurring on and after November 1, 2026.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01875-01-5