 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2098
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  early
          voting on federal holidays
 
          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 8-600  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Beginning  the  tenth  day  prior to any general, primary, run-off
     4  primary pursuant to subdivision one of section 6-162 of this chapter  or
     5  special  election  for  any  public or party position except for such an
     6  election held pursuant to title two of article six or article fifteen of
     7  this chapter, and ending on and including the second day prior  to  such
     8  general,  primary,  run-off  primary or special election for such public
     9  office or party position, persons duly registered and eligible  to  vote
    10  at  such  election shall be permitted to vote as provided in this title.
    11  Where such early voting period includes a federal holiday, early  voting
    12  shall  be  prohibited on such federal holiday and the board of elections
    13  shall add an additional day to the early voting  period.  The  board  of
    14  elections  shall  establish procedures, subject to approval of the state
    15  board of elections, to ensure that persons who  vote  during  the  early
    16  voting  period  shall  not be permitted to vote subsequently in the same
    17  election.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date as the  reversion  of
    19  subdivision  1  of  section  8-600  of  the  election law as provided in
    20  section 18 of chapter 474 of the laws of 2023, as amended.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00646-02-5
Prohibits early voting on federal holidays

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