---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacts the voter friendly ballot act; repealer"
description: "Enacts the voter friendly ballot act; relates to the form of the ballot for elections; removes additional provisions for primary elections for New York city."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 2300"
citation: "New York S 2300 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["KAVANAGH"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-10-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f6f8c2c-66cc-4648-916c-2513539059e0"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S2300"
source_hash: "384b02a675689df145e750bdd4fa0a481b88e1993f2ab5ea2cb42021e11a6edc"
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 2300 (2019-2020) — Enacts the voter friendly ballot act; repealer

Enacts the voter friendly ballot act; relates to the form of the ballot for elections; removes additional provisions for primary elections for New York city.

## Version chain

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

1. **S2300** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2300&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **S2300A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S2300A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **40–20** (pass) · upper
- Elections Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- KAVANAGH — primary (person)
- ADDABBO — cosponsor (person)
- CARLUCCI — cosponsor (person)
- HOYLMAN — cosponsor (person)
- KAMINSKY — cosponsor (person)
- MAY — cosponsor (person)
- PARKER — cosponsor (person)
- RIVERA — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** REFERRED TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** 1ST REPORT CAL.160
- **2019-02-27** AMENDED 2300A `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-27** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2019-02-28** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2019-03-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-03-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-03-05** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2682A
- **2019-03-11** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.33
- **2019-03-11** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-03-11** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-10-21** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-10-24** SIGNED CHAP.411 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f6f8c2c-66cc-4648-916c-2513539059e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).