New York A 3954: Enacts the student voter empowerment act
Status: REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW (as of 2026-01-07)
State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 3954
Sponsors: Steven Raga, Al Taylor, Amy Paulin, Claire Valdez, David Weprin, Emily Gallagher, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Jo Anne Simon, John T. McDonald III, Jordan Wright, Karines Reyes, Linda Rosenthal, Marcela Mitaynes, Noah Burroughs, Rebecca Kassay, Rebecca Seawright, Sarahana Shrestha, Stefani Zinerman, Tony Simone
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Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly • • • • • • • • Skip to main content New York State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie --> --> --> • Assembly Members • Legislative Info • Public Hearings • Speaker's Press • Assembly Reports • Committees & More • Bill Search Home • Laws • Legislative Calendar • Public Hearing Schedule • Assembly Calendars • Assembly Committee Agenda Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. Bill No.: • Summary • Actions • Committee Votes • Floor Votes • Memo • Text • LFIN • Chamber Video/Transcript A03954 Summary: BILL NOA03954B   SAME ASSAME AS S02056-B   SPONSORRaga   COSPNSRSeawright, Simone, Kassay, McDonald, Reyes, Shrestha, Mitaynes, Gonzalez-Rojas, Burroughs, Gallagher, Simon, Wright, Zinerman, Valdez, Paulin, Taylor, Weprin, Rosenthal   MLTSPNSR   Amd §§5-211 & 17-208, El L   Enacts the "student voter empowerment act"; requires each institution of higher education to designate a staff member to act as a student voting coordinator; requires such coordinator to develop and implement a student voting action plan to increase student voter registration and voting and democratic participation among students. Go to top A03954 Actions: BILL NOA03954B   01/30/2025referred to election law 06/10/2025amend and recommit to election law 06/10/2025print number 3954a 01/07/2026referred to election law 06/01/2026amend and recommit to election law 06/01/2026print number 3954b 06/02/2026reference changed to ways and means 06/03/2026reported referred to rules 06/03/2026reported 06/03/2026rules report cal.444 06/03/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.444 Go to topA03954 Committee Votes: Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow DATE:06/03/2026AYE/NAY:22/10 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyePalmesanoNay GlickAyeFitzpatrickNay ColtonAyeHawleyNay CookExcusedBlankenbushNay BenedettoAyeWalshNay WeprinAyeDeStefanoNay RamosAyeManktelowNay BraunsteinAyeSmullenNay McDonaldAyeGiglioNay RozicAyeSlaterNay DinowitzAye MagnarelliAye BronsonAye DilanAbsent SeawrightAye HyndmanExcused WalkerAye Bichotte HermelAye SimonAye CruzAye OtisAye SolagesAye HunterAye SeptimoAye HevesiAye Committee:RULES Chair:Glick DATE:06/03/2026AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye PretlowAyeHawleyAye CookExcusedBlankenbushAye GlickAyeBrabenecAye DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye ColtonAyeReillyAye MagnarelliAyeSmithAye PaulinAyeJensenAye Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye BenedettoAye LavineAye LupardoAye BraunsteinAye DavilaAye HyndmanAye RozicAye BronsonAye HevesiAye HunterAye TaylorAye CruzAye VanelAye Go to topA03954 Floor Votes: There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session. Go to topA03954 Text: STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3954--B 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAGA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMONE, KASSAY, McDONALD, REYES, SHRESTHA, MITAYNES, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, BURROUGHS, GALLAGHER, SIMON, WRIGHT, ZINERMAN, VALDEZ, PAULIN, TAYLOR, WEPRIN, ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to enacting the "student voter empowerment act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "student voter empowerment act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 18 of section 5-211 of the election law, as amended 4 by chapter 481 of the laws of 2023, is amended and two new subdivisions 5 19 and 20 are added to read as follows: 6 18. (a) [(i)] On or before January first, two thousand twenty, all 7 institutions of the state university of New York and the city university 8 of New York shall create and make available to all students a webpage 9 for voter education on each such institution's website, containing a 10 link to an application for voter registration, a link to an application 11 for an early mail ballot, updated information about the location and 12 hours of the polling place designated for students registered to vote on 13 the contiguous property of the institution, if such polling place exists 14 pursuant to subdivision five-a of section 4-104 of this chapter or as 15 designated by the local board of election, key dates for voting regis- 16 tration, voting times, and absentee voting detailed in the state board 17 of elections political cal
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