S 1265: Requires that all electronic tax preparation software offered for sale in the state of New York include a prompt providing a link to users of such software to a New York state voter registration application website.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1265 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the tax law and the election law, in relation to requir- ing tax preparation software to provide a link to voter registration websites The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 171 of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision twenty-ninth to read as follows: 3 Twenty-ninth. Require that all electronic income tax preparation soft- 4 ware offered for sale or use in the state of New York include a prompt 5 providing a link to users of such software to a New York state voter 6 registration application website pursuant to section 5-231 of the 7 election law. 8 § 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-231 to read 9 as follows: 10 § 5-231. Electronic income tax voter registration. The department of 11 taxation and finance, in consultation with the state board of elections, 12 shall require that all electronic income tax preparation software 13 offered for sale or use in the state of New York include a prompt to 14 users of such software which shall provide a link to a New York state 15 voter registration application website. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03872-01-5