STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5043 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN, EACHUS, REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 8-400 of the 2 election law, as amended by chapter 481 of the laws of 2023, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (c) All applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail or through 5 the electronic absentee ballot application transmittal system must be 6 received by the board of elections not later than the tenth day before 7 the election for which a ballot is first requested. Applications for an 8 absentee ballot that will be delivered in person at the board of 9 elections to the voter or to an agent of the voter must be received by 10 such board not later than the day [before] of such election. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03992-01-5