Bill Text: NY S01733 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires local boards of education, BOCES, charter schools and non public schools to adopt policies to promote student voter registration and pre-registration, including procedures for providing access to voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school year and assistance with filing such applications and informing students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-registration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-20 - SIGNED CHAP.478 [S01733 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01733-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1733--A
            Cal. No. 196

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Education  --  reported
          favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to first and second report,
          ordered to a third reading, passed by  Senate  and  delivered  to  the
          Assembly,  recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored  to third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to encouraging student
          voter registration and pre-registration

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 5-507 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 2 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2. Encouragement of student voter registration  and  pre-registration.
     4  Local  boards  of education, boards of cooperative educational services,
     5  charter schools and non public schools are required to adopt policies to
     6  promote student voter registration and pre-registration. These  policies
     7  may  include  collaboration  with  county boards of elections to conduct
     8  voter registration  and  pre-registration  in  high  schools  and  shall
     9  include,  but not be limited to, procedures for: (i) providing access to
    10  voter registration and pre-registration applications during  the  school
    11  year  and  assistance  with filing such applications; and (ii) informing
    12  students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-regis-
    13  tration. Completion and submission of voter registration  or  pre-regis-
    14  tration forms shall not be a course requirement or graded assignment for
    15  students.
    16    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    17  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately  the
    18  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    19  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    20  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04510-09-3