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type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to permitting candidates to be employed by a board of elections"
description: "Permits a candidate for office to be employed by a board of elections with prior authorization and a majority vote of the elections commissioners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 799"
citation: "New York S 799 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Mayer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63fd4562-8b46-4822-b535-6fc8277b8c27"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S799"
source_hash: "5eacf0fa0470662ec3979133334dabefea2a4db061216ea5b5c8d70dfe947628"
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 799 (2025-2026) — Relates to permitting candidates to be employed by a board of elections
Permits a candidate for office to be employed by a board of elections with prior authorization and a majority vote of the elections commissioners.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S799** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S799&term=2025&Text=Y)
## Votes
- Assembly Vote — **101–47** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **44–18** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **17–4** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Shelley Mayer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.73
- **2025-02-05** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-02-05** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-02-05** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1015
- **2025-03-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.77
- **2025-03-03** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-03-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-03-07** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-07** SIGNED CHAP.105 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63fd4562-8b46-4822-b535-6fc8277b8c27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).