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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to permitting candidates to be employed by a board of elections"
+description: "Permits a candidate for office to be employed by a board of elections with prior authorization and a majority vote of the elections commissioners."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 799"
+citation: "New York S 799 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Mayer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-03-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63fd4562-8b46-4822-b535-6fc8277b8c27"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S799"
+source_hash: "5eacf0fa0470662ec3979133334dabefea2a4db061216ea5b5c8d70dfe947628"
+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 799 (2025-2026) — Relates to permitting candidates to be employed by a board of elections
+
+Permits a candidate for office to be employed by a board of elections with prior authorization and a majority vote of the elections commissioners.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S799** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S799&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **101–47** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **44–18** (pass) · upper
+- Rules Vote — **17–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Shelley Mayer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.73
+- **2025-02-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-02-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-02-05** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1015
+- **2025-03-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.77
+- **2025-03-03** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-03-07** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-07** SIGNED CHAP.105 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63fd4562-8b46-4822-b535-6fc8277b8c27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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