Bill Text: NY A05106 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An act to amend the judiciary law, in relation to excluding voter registration lists from the sources of names for jurors

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to judiciary [A05106 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A05106-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5106
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 10, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to excluding voter regis-
         tration lists from the sources of names for jurors
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 506 of the judiciary law, as amended by section 109
    2  of  part  B  of  chapter  436 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    S 506. Source of names. The commissioner of  jurors  shall  cause  the
    5  names  of  prospective  jurors  to be selected at random [from the voter
    6  registration lists, and] from such [other] available lists of the  resi-
    7  dents of the county as the chief administrator of the courts shall spec-
    8  ify,  such  as lists of utility subscribers, licensed operators of motor
    9  vehicles, registered owners of motor vehicles, state and  local  taxpay-
   10  ers,  persons  applying  for  or  receiving  family  assistance, medical
   11  assistance or safety net assistance, persons receiving  state  unemploy-
   12  ment  benefits  and  persons  who have volunteered to serve as jurors by
   13  filing with the commissioner their names and places of residence.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   15  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08591-01-9
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