New York S 441: Requires the board of elections to notify absentee voters of the status of their ballot and to correct an unaccepted ballot

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S00441 Summary:

BILL NOS00441A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08891

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SPONSORMYRIE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §17-204, El L

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Includes certain persons of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and speakers of Haitian Creole as language minorities.

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BILL NOS00441A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

06/06/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTIONS

06/06/2025PRINT NUMBER 441A

06/11/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/11/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1795

06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/11/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

04/21/20261ST REPORT CAL.789

04/22/20262ND REPORT CAL.

04/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/28/2026PASSED SENATE

04/28/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/28/2026referred to election law

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 441--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to including speakers of
 Haitian Creole and persons of Middle Eastern or North African heritage
 as language minorities

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 17-204 of the election law, as
 2 added by chapter 226 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 3 5-a. "Language minorities" or "language-minority group" means persons
 4 who are American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives, speakers of
 5 Haitian Creole, or of Spanish heritage. "Language minorities" or
 6 "language-minority group" shall also mean persons of Middle Eastern or
 7 North African heritage as defined by the federal office of management
 8 and budget's statistical policy directive fifteen.
 9 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 10 law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01724-02-5

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