New York A 8985: Relates to persons and families in company projects who are required to pay a rental surcharge

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A08985 Summary:

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Permits boards of elections to opt to mail communications regarding primary elections to only those voters eligible to vote in such primary elections; excludes such option for the board of elections of the city of New York.

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08/13/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026referred to election law

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8985

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 August 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Election Law

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to communications mailed
 to registered voters regarding primary elections

 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 4-117 of the election law, as
 2 amended by chapter 481 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. The board of elections, between the third Tuesday in April and the
 5 second Friday in May in each year, shall send by mail on which is
 6 endorsed such language designated by the state board of elections to
 7 ensure postal authorities do not forward such mail but return it to the
 8 board of elections with forwarding information, when it cannot be deliv-
 9 ered as addressed and which contains a request that any such mail
 10 received for persons not residing at the address be dropped back in the
 11 mail, a communication, in a form approved by the state board of
 12 elections, to every registered voter, except as otherwise provided in
 13 this subdivision, who has been registered without a change of address
 14 since the beginning of such year, except that the board of elections
 15 shall not be required to send such communications to voters in inactive
 16 status. The communication shall notify the voter in bold print contained
 17 in such notice of the days and hours of the ensuing [primary and] gener-
 18 al elections and primary elections, where applicable, the place where
 19 [he or she] such voter appears by [his or her] their registration
 20 records to be entitled to vote, and also in other than bold type of the
 21 fact that voters who have moved or will have moved from the address
 22 where they were last registered must either notify the board of
 23 elections of [his or her] their new address or vote by paper ballot at
 24 the polling place for [his or her] their new address even if such voter
 25 has not re-registered, or otherwise notified the board of elections of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13353-01-5

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 1 the change of address. In lieu of sending the communication to every
 2 registered voter, a board of elections, except the board of elections of
 3 the city of New York, may elect to send such communication with regard
 4 to primary elections only to those voters who are eligible to vote in
 5 such primary elections. If the primary will not be held on the first
 6 Tuesday after the second Monday in September, the communication shall
 7 contain a conspicuous notice in all capital letters and bold font noti-
 8 fying the voter of the primary date. If the location of the polling
 9 place for the voter's election district has been moved, the communi-
 10 cation shall contain the following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING
 11 PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........". The communication
 12 shall indicate that any registered voter may vote early by mail by
 13 applying for an early mail ballot, and provide information on how to
 14 apply for an early mail ballot. The communication shall also indicate
 15 whether the polling place is accessible to physically disabled voters,
 16 that a voter who will be out of the city or county on the day of the
 17 primary or general election or a voter who is ill or physically disabled
 18 may obtain an absentee ballot, that a physicall