S6259 • 2025

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections

Education Elections

Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor: James Skoufis
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections to all enrolled students.

What This Bill Does

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections to all enrolled students.

Limits and Unknowns

This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

2026-06-02 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-02 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-06-02 Assembly
REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW
2026-05-26 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-21 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-20 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1314
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ELECTIONS
2025-03-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections
Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections to all enrolled students.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

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

                                          6259

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      March 7, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  requiring  educational
          institutions in the state to communicate all absentee ballot deadlines
          for New York state elections

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

     1    Section 1. Section 4-120 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. (A) ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLEGES IN THE STATE SHALL SEND NOTIFI-
     4  CATIONS  TO  ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS OF THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR ABSENTEE
     5  BALLOTS ON SUCH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WEBSITES  OR  THROUGH  EMAIL  AT
     6  LEAST  THREE  TIMES ONE MONTH PRIOR TO THE OFFICIAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE,
     7  FOR ALL VILLAGE, CITY, PRIMARY, SPECIAL, AND GENERAL  ELECTIONS  IN  NEW
     8  YORK STATE.
     9    (B)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "COLLEGE" SHALL MEAN ANY
    10  INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION, RECOGNIZED AND APPROVED BY THE  REGENTS
    11  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WHICH PROVIDES A COURSE OF
    12  STUDY LEADING TO THE GRANTING OF A POST-SECONDARY DEGREE OR DIPLOMA.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09363-01-5