---
type: "Bill"
title: "Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted a school board or school budget election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting"
description: "Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted an annual meeting and election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting if less than eight percent of registered voters cast ballots as a direct consequence of a disaster."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 3735"
citation: "New York S 3735 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Mayer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-11-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3edc9b84-e6e2-4482-b08a-17da1fae7d68"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3735"
source_hash: "749d4613b32ab66b6f6bf569178c7805d25759340bbbff27f29f1510b7bed090"
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 3735 (2025-2026) — Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted a school board or school budget election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting

Empowers the commissioner of education to declare a disaster has substantially impacted an annual meeting and election and to allow school boards to set an additional day for voting if less than eight percent of registered voters cast ballots as a direct consequence of a disaster.

## Version chain

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

1. **S3735** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S3735&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **142–3** (pass) · lower
- Education Vote — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shelley Mayer — primary (person)
- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** REFERRED TO EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** 1ST REPORT CAL.311
- **2025-02-12** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-02-24** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-04-08** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-04-08** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-04-08** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5302
- **2025-04-30** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.160
- **2025-04-30** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-04-30** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-11-21** SIGNED CHAP.547 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3edc9b84-e6e2-4482-b08a-17da1fae7d68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).