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Senate bill · S9024 (2025-26)

Removes designating letters on ballots

Latest action Jun 3, 2026

New York State Senate

Same as A11192, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Sponsor

Michael Gianaris

Democratic/Working Families

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Summary

Removes designating letters for rows and columns on ballots.

Summary from NY Open Legislation. How we handle summaries

Amends the Election Law.

From NY Open Legislation, the NY Senate and Assembly, and official rosters. This record was last updated Oct 21, 2026. About our data

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Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

To make it optional to include designating letters on ballots

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Where it stands

Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Up for a vote
  4. Passed one chamber
  5. Passed
  6. Enacted

Committee

Election Law · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Elections · New York State Senate.

The sponsor's argument

Why Michael Gianaris says this is needed

Under current election law, ballots must assign a designating letter to each row or column containing the names of candidates in the same party or independent body. This bill would make it optional to print such designating letters to help free up space on ballots.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Recorded votes

  • Vote: Floor vote

    NY SenateJun 3, 2026Result: passed

    (41) (20) (0) (2)

  • Vote: Committee vote · Rules

    Senate RulesMay 28, 2026Result: passed

    (19) (2) (0) (0)

Full history

  1. Jun 3, 2026

    Sent to the executive

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

    NY Senate

  2. Jun 3, 2026

    Passed a chamber

    PASSED SENATE

    NY Senate

  3. Jun 3, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW

    NY Assembly

  4. May 28, 2026

    In committee

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

    NY Senate

  5. May 28, 2026

    Ordered to Third Reading CAL.1391

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1391

    NY Senate

Show full history (2 earlier events)
  1. May 1, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW

    NY Assembly

  2. Jan 22, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

    NY Senate