Bill Text: NY A06194 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires bi-monthly reporting on deceased voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to vote in order to accurately maintain the statewide voter registration list.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-23 - held for consideration in election law [A06194 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06194-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6194

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to removal of deceased
          voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to  vote
          from the statewide voter registration list

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 5-614 of the election  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  24  of  the laws of 2005, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. For purposes of removing names of ineligible voters from  the  list
     5  of eligible voters, the state board of elections shall obtain and trans-
     6  mit  to  local  boards of elections, bi-monthly, (a) the list of persons
     7  who have died maintained by the New York city department of  health  and
     8  the  state  department of health, and (b) the list of persons subject to
     9  forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106 of this  arti-
    10  cle  maintained  by  the  office  of  court administration or by a court
    11  having made such determination.
    12    6. Each local board of elections shall, within [twenty-five]  fourteen
    13  days  after  receiving such list of decedents or list of persons subject
    14  to forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to  section  5-106  of  this
    15  article,  use  such  lists  to identify and remove decedents and persons
    16  subject to forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106  of
    17  this article from the list of eligible voters.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10403-01-3