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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/s-2589.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to absentee ballots for relating to absentee ballots for school district elections"
+description: "Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 2589"
+citation: "New York S 2589 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Mayer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-11-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85c6748b-97b8-4cc3-8294-bb724610a95c"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S2589"
+source_hash: "b466824aef159c87c0712f4437e9c06f0c4055cb61bc8234bb96279f8c6aad3a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 2589 (2025-2026) — Relates to absentee ballots for relating to absentee ballots for school district elections
+
+Clarifies valid reasons to obtain an absentee ballot for elections in school districts which do not utilize poll registration.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S2589** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2589&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote — **50–12** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **139–5** (pass) · lower
+- Education Vote — **13–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Shelley Mayer — primary (person)
+- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** 1ST REPORT CAL.309
+- **2025-02-12** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2025-02-24** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2025-04-02** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-04-02** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5301
+- **2025-05-21** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.218
+- **2025-05-21** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-11-21** SIGNED CHAP.541 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85c6748b-97b8-4cc3-8294-bb724610a95c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+