Bill Text: NY A10320 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the board of elections to check all registered voter's citizenship and lawful permanent resident status.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to election law [A10320 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A10320-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10320 IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the board of elections to check all registered voter's citizenship and lawful permanent resident status 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 5-714 2 to read as follows: 3 § 5-714. Check of citizenship. The board of elections, with the 4 department of motor vehicles, shall check all registered voter's and all 5 persons attempting to register to vote's citizenship and lawful perma- 6 nent resident status using department of motor vehicle records. Whenever 7 it appears to the satisfaction of a board of elections that any voter or 8 witness has made a false statement, whether or not under oath, affecting 9 a persons qualifications to be registered or has given false testimony 10 at any hearing affecting such registration, such board forthwith shall 11 forward such statement or testimony to the district attorney. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13940-01-1
