Bill Text: NY S00818 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Adjusts the effective date of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York to July 1, 2023.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.169 [S00818 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00818-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 818 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the election law relating to establishing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, establishing rights of action for denying or abridging of the right of any member of a protected class to vote, providing assistance to language-minority groups, requiring certain political subdivisions to receive preclearance for potential violations of the NYVRA, and creating civil liability for voter intimidation, as proposed in legis- lative bills numbers S. 1046-E and A. 6678-E, in relation to the effectiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 5 of a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the 2 election law relating to establishing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights 3 Act of New York, establishing rights of action for denying or abridging 4 of the right of any member of a protected class to vote, providing 5 assistance to language-minority groups, requiring certain political 6 subdivisions to receive preclearance for potential violations of the 7 NYVRA, and creating civil liability for voter intimidation, as proposed 8 in legislative bills numbers S. 1046-E and A. 6678-E, is amended to read 9 as follows: 10 § 5. This act shall take effect [immediately; provided, however, that11paragraph (c) of subdivision seven of section 17-206 of the election law12as added by section four of this act shall take effect one year after it13shall have become a law; and provided further, however,] July 1, 2023; 14 provided that section 17-208 of the election law as added by section 15 four of this act shall take effect three years after it shall have 16 become a law; and provided further, however, that section 17-210 of the 17 election law, as added by section four of this act, shall take effect 18 one year after the attorney general certifies that the office of the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03949-01-3S. 818 2 1 attorney general is prepared to execute the duties assigned in section 2 four of this act, if after the expiration of one year the attorney 3 general requires more time to certify that the office of the attorney 4 general is prepared to execute the duties assigned in section four of 5 this act, the attorney general, may, for good cause shown, apply to the 6 governor for such an extension of time. The governor may grant or deny 7 an extension of up to one year according to his or her discretion. The 8 attorney general shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission 9 upon the occurrence of the enactment of the legislation provided for in 10 section four of this act in order that the commission may maintain an 11 accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws 12 of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions 13 of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public 14 officers law. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.