S 88 NY
Provides for automatic voter registration and preregistration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for Medicaid enrollees
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Summary
The bill provides for automatic voter registration for individuals who apply for certain Department of Motor Vehicles documentation. The bill also provides for automatic voter pre-registration for individuals applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid. Eligible individuals would be automatically registered or pre-registered unless they choose to decline the automatic registration. This would streamline voter registration by leveraging existing interactions with the DMV and Medicaid. The bill allows individuals to opt out of automatic registration if they choose.
AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill (from the OpenStates abstract — no full text available yet) — neutral, and may be imperfect.
Official abstract
Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.
Sponsor (1)
- Michael Gianaris Democratic · primary
16 coauthors / cosponsors
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. Democratic · cosponsor
- Erik Bottcher Democratic · cosponsor
- Samra Brouk Democratic · cosponsor
- Cordell Cleare Democratic · cosponsor
- Nathalia Fernandez Democratic · cosponsor
- Andrew Gounardes Democratic · cosponsor
- Robert Jackson Democratic · cosponsor
- John Liu Democratic · cosponsor
- Shelley Mayer Democratic · cosponsor
- Kevin S. Parker Democratic · cosponsor
- Roxanne J. Persaud Democratic · cosponsor
- Gustavo Rivera Democratic · cosponsor
- Julia Salazar Democratic · cosponsor
- José M. Serrano Democratic · cosponsor
- Toby Ann Stavisky Democratic · cosponsor
- Sam Sutton Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (18)
- Jan 8, 2025 REFERRED TO ELECTIONS · upper
- Jan 13, 2025 COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES · upper
- Jan 13, 2025 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1 · upper
- Jan 13, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
- Jan 13, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- Jan 13, 2025 REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO ELECTIONS · upper
- Jan 8, 2026 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTIONS · upper
- Jan 8, 2026 PRINT NUMBER 88A · upper
- Feb 26, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
- Apr 28, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.839 · upper
- Apr 29, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- May 4, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 11, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- May 11, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- May 11, 2026 REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW · lower
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