Bill Text: NY A07459 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the young adult voter registration act; requires each public high school within the state to make voter registration forms available to all students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A07459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07459-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7459

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to enacting the young
          adult voter registration act

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

     1    Section  1.    This  act shall be known and may be cited as the "young
     2  adult voter registration act".
     3    § 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-231 to read
     4  as follows:
     5    § 5-231. Young adult voter registration. 1.  Registration  of  voters.
     6  Each public high school within the state shall make available during the
     7  school  year  to  all students such materials as may be published by the
     8  board of elections relating to voter registration and,  where  appropri-
     9  ate, shall provide applications for registration and enrollment, and may
    10  assist in the execution of such applications.
    11    2.  Registration of young adults.  Each school district shall distrib-
    12  ute a voter registration form to any  student  seventeen  years  old  or
    13  older  that  will  be eighteen years old at the time of the next general
    14  election.
    15    3. Forms to be available at school.  The  state  education  department
    16  shall  ensure  that  voter  registration  forms provided by the board of
    17  elections are available in the main  or  central  office  of  each  high
    18  school under the jurisdiction of the department for students who wish to
    19  obtain  one. The department shall also ensure that each such high school
    20  provides adequate notice to its students of  the  availability  of  such
    21  forms in its main or central office.
    22    4. Sufficient quantity of forms. The department shall request from the
    23  board  of elections a sufficient quantity of voter registration forms to
    24  meet the requirements of this section.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03828-01-1