New York S 2056: Enacts the student voter empowerment act

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S02056 Summary:

BILL NOS02056B

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SAME ASSAME AS A03954-B

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SPONSORWEBB

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COSPNSRCLEARE, FAHY, JACKSON, MAY, SERRANO, SKOUFIS

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§5-211 & 17-208, El L

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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.

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BILL NOS02056B

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01/15/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

06/09/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTIONS

06/09/2025PRINT NUMBER 2056A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

04/21/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

06/01/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

06/01/2026PRINT NUMBER 2056B

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2056--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. WEBB, CLEARE, FAHY, JACKSON, MAY, SERRANO, SKOUFIS
 -- 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 --
 recommitted to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate
 Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed
 to the Committee on Higher Education -- 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 calendar, information about the voting rights of
 18 students, contact information for the county board of elections, and the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03341-07-6

 S. 2056--B 2

 1 name and contact information for the [administrator responsible for
 2 voter registration assistance] student voting coordinator on each
 3 campus.
 4 [(ii)] (b) Each such institution shall, at the beginning of the school
 5 year, and again in January of a year in which the president of the
 6 United States is to be elected, provide an application for voter regis-
 7 tration and an application for an early mail ballot to each student in
 8 each such institution. Each institution shall be considered in compli-
 9 ance with the requirements of this [subparagraph] paragraph for each
 10 student to whom the institution electronically transmits a message
 11 containing the link to the webpage for voter education, the link to an
 12 application for voter registration and the link to an application for an
 13 early mail ballot, if such information is in an electronic message
 14 devoted exclusively to voter registration.
 15 [(iii)] (c) Each such institutio