Bill Text: NY A09193 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state board of elections to participate in the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program, administered by the United States citizenship and immigration services agency, to verify that a person who is either registered or registering to vote is a United States citizen.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-12 - referred to election law [A09193 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09193-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9193

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to verification of voter
          qualifications

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

     1    Section  1.  The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-108
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 5-108. Verification of voter qualifications; citizenship. The  state
     4  board  of  elections shall participate in the systematic alien verifica-
     5  tion for entitlements (SAVE) program, administered by the United  States
     6  citizenship and immigration services agency, to verify that a person who
     7  is  either registered or registering to vote is a United States citizen.
     8  Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the  state
     9  board  of  elections  is  authorized  to share and transmit all relevant
    10  information provided by a person, who is either registered or  register-
    11  ing  to  vote,  to  the  state board of elections with the United States
    12  citizenship and immigration services agency for the purpose of verifying
    13  such person's citizenship status.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14484-01-4