---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires notice of ensuing election's date and time to be in bold type"
description: "Requires the board of elections to print in bold type the date and time of all upcoming primary and general elections on address verification notices sent out prior to elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "A 1385"
citation: "New York A 1385 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["PERRY"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2020-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80c8f8a7-f05c-49cc-9855-a1d3ca1c69bf"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A1385"
source_hash: "a5ac597cab2adcef41b1c4b44bc078d2142cd2d806bf48766af16d13fa7fd3be"
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 A 1385 (2019-2020) — Requires notice of ensuing election's date and time to be in bold type

Requires the board of elections to print in bold type the date and time of all upcoming primary and general elections on address verification notices sent out prior to elections.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A1385** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A1385&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **A1385A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A1385A)
3. **A1385B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A1385B)

## Votes

- Floor Vote - Version: B — **59–1** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **133–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- PERRY — primary (person)
- JACOBSON — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-15** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** REPORTED
- **2019-05-02** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.226
- **2019-05-06** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1385A `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-11** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1385B `amendment-passage`
- **2020-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.72
- **2020-01-15** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-01-15** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2020-01-15** REFERRED TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-22** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6302A
- **2020-07-22** 3RD READING CAL.790
- **2020-07-22** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-07-22** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-09-25** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-10-07** SIGNED CHAP.200 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80c8f8a7-f05c-49cc-9855-a1d3ca1c69bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).