Bill Text: NY S01453 | 2019-2020 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01453-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1453
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
        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.
                                                                   LBD06335-01-9