S440 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.
- Title
- Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-06-02
- In committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Introduced
- 2024-12-31
- Active version
- S440A
- Same as
- A2121
- Law section
- Election Law
Sponsors
- Zellnor Myrie State Senator, District 20
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
- Cordell Cleare State Senator, District 30
- Gustavo Rivera State Senator, District 33
- Jabari Brisport State Senator, District 25
Heard in committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction NY State Senate committee
- Elections NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A2121 (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 Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Elections, 2026-03-31