S2056 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
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.
- Title
- Enacts the student voter empowerment act
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-06-01
- In committee
- Higher Education
- Introduced
- 2025-01-15
- Active version
- S2056B
- Same as
- A3954
- Law section
- Election Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Cordell Cleare State Senator, District 30
Heard in committee
- Elections NY State Senate committee
- Higher Education NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A3954 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Elections, 2026-04-21 Referred to committee; referred to Higher Education
- Elections, 2026-03-31