---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to requiring municipalities with the highest population in each county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting"
description: "Requires municipalities with the highest population in each county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 8782"
citation: "New York S 8782 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BRESLIN"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-07-15"
last_action: "2020-12-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c674469-e7f9-4135-9e39-40fe85b48e64"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S8782"
source_hash: "85b0c2ddf22349018c02c75442a77904b865a9df7701390d25bfad6c8088d3eb"
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 8782 (2019-2020) — Relates to requiring municipalities with the highest population in each county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting

Requires municipalities with the highest population in each county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

## Version chain

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

1. **S8782** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8782&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **13–6** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **100–41** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **43–17** (pass) · upper
- Elections Vote — **6–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- BRESLIN — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-07-15** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-15** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-21** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.963
- **2020-07-22** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-07-22** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-07-22** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8610B
- **2020-07-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.359
- **2020-07-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-07-23** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-12-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-12-15** SIGNED CHAP.344 `executive-signature`
- **2020-12-15** APPROVAL MEMO.48

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c674469-e7f9-4135-9e39-40fe85b48e64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).