New York Assembly Bill A05041 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5041 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, DINOWITZ, LUPARDO, EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting fraudulent absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 17-172 2 to read as follows: 3 § 17-172. Absentee ballot drop-off fraud. Any person or entity, other 4 than the board of elections, who erects, displays or maintains an absen- 5 tee ballot drop-off box or receptacle is guilty of a felony. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03969-01-5