Bill Text: NY A01176 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A01176 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01176-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1176

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring that subpoe-
          nas relating to election matters be served with  a  separate  informa-
          tional sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 16-102 of the election law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  A subpoena issued in relation to this article shall require that
     4  the subpoena be served with a separate informational sheet  that  summa-
     5  rizes  why the subpoena has been issued, that the case is not related to
     6  a criminal action, that the person to whom the subpoena is being  served
     7  does  not  currently  face criminal charges related to the case, specify
     8  that the action is related to the upcoming  election  of  the  pertinent
     9  office and the consequences of not following the subpoena.  The informa-
    10  tional  sheet shall be affixed to the subpoena being served and shall be
    11  written in plain language and printed in a format and type size that  is
    12  clear and easy to read.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02176-01-3
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