---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacts the \"hope card act\""
description: "Enacts the \"hope card act\" directing the office of court administration to develop a program to issue hope cards containing the information regarding and content of a final order of protection to requesting petitioners who have received final orders of protection at no cost to such petitioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 5935"
citation: "New York S 5935 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cordell Cleare"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-23"
last_action: "2023-10-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74274e30-07ea-4707-b9e4-d03373fe33bc"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S5935"
source_hash: "503c2d91bf3a382e47714c22062a41479cfe51e0b0e0dd7384902031dc5a6fd8"
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 5935 (2023-2024) — Enacts the "hope card act"

Enacts the "hope card act" directing the office of court administration to develop a program to issue hope cards containing the information regarding and content of a final order of protection to requesting petitioners who have received final orders of protection at no cost to such petitioner.

## Version chain

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

1. **S5935** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5935&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **146–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cordell Cleare — primary (person)
- Jake Ashby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-23** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1645
- **2023-06-06** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-06** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-06** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-09** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5040
- **2023-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.759
- **2023-06-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-09** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-10-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-23** SIGNED CHAP.538 `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-23** APPROVAL MEMO.13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74274e30-07ea-4707-b9e4-d03373fe33bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).