---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to joining multistate voter list maintenance organizations"
description: "Permits the state board of elections to join certain multistate voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information; requires the state to join a multistate voter list maintenance organization on or before July 31, 2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 1356"
citation: "New York S 1356 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Skoufis"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-12-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ce12423-6a10-46f1-8409-141a9304f8db"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1356"
source_hash: "1f617dad05a8129044a43551eef9f534e0e159494fc1ab897d22d221e9676c0b"
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 1356 (2025-2026) — Relates to joining multistate voter list maintenance organizations

Permits the state board of elections to join certain multistate voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information; requires the state to join a multistate voter list maintenance organization on or before July 31, 2026.

## Version chain

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

1. **S1356** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1356&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **S1356A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S1356A)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **143–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **59–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Skoufis — primary (person)
- Gustavo Rivera — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** REFERRED TO ELECTIONS `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.9
- **2025-01-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-01-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-01-13** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
- **2025-03-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-03-03** VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-03-03** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1356A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-24** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-03-24** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-03-24** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** SUBSTITUTED FOR A3649B
- **2025-05-27** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.262
- **2025-06-06** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-06** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-12** SIGNED CHAP.630 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ce12423-6a10-46f1-8409-141a9304f8db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).