---
type: "Bill"
title: "Encourages student voter registration and pre-registration"
description: "Requires local boards of education, BOCES, charter schools and non public schools to adopt policies to promote student voter registration and pre-registration, including procedures for providing access to voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school year and assistance with filing such applications and informing students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-registration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 1733"
citation: "New York S 1733 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Mayer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-13"
last_action: "2023-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0142ef7-bba7-45bb-bcc6-f9c77848b79e"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S1733"
source_hash: "1351c42ffdf7c3bc83180ca5da69a25bf38e229fe8052251676ef428d5b5ceb2"
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 1733 (2023-2024) — Encourages student voter registration and pre-registration

Requires local boards of education, BOCES, charter schools and non public schools to adopt policies to promote student voter registration and pre-registration, including procedures for providing access to voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school year and assistance with filing such applications and informing students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-registration.

## Version chain

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

1. **S1733** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1733&term=2023&Text=Y)
2. **S1733A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S1733A)

## Votes

- Education Vote — **10–5** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **128–15** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **40–21** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **42–18** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shelley Mayer — primary (person)
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Samra Brouk — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-13** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** 1ST REPORT CAL.196
- **2023-01-25** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2023-01-30** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-03-01** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-03-01** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-03-01** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-22** RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
- **2023-05-22** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-05-22** VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-05-22** AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 1733A `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-30** REPASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-05-30** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-05-30** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-01** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5180A
- **2023-06-01** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.450
- **2023-06-01** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-01** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-09-19** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-09-20** SIGNED CHAP.478 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0142ef7-bba7-45bb-bcc6-f9c77848b79e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).