Bill Text: NY S02538 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "voter empowerment act of New York" to streamline the process for registering to vote.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-19 - PRINT NUMBER 2538C [S02538 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02538-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2538--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 26, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, ADDABBO, AVELLA, DILAN, HASSELL-THOMPSON,
          HOYLMAN, KENNEDY,  KRUEGER,  MONTGOMERY,  PERALTA,  PERKINS,  SERRANO,
          SQUADRON, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Elections --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
          Elections in accordance with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to enacting the "voter
          empowerment act of New York"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "voter empowerment act of New York".
     3    § 2. Section 5-104 of the election law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     5    3. The provisions set forth in subdivision one of this section regard-
     6  ing the right of students to register and vote shall be interpreted in a
     7  manner  consistent with the constitutional requirement that each citizen
     8  must be permitted to vote in that community which is the "locus  of  ...
     9  primary concern" to that citizen at the time of the election. According-
    10  ly,  a  student attending a college or university in this state shall be
    11  permitted to retain his or her parental residence for voting purposes if
    12  the parental community  remains  the  locus  of  the  student's  primary
    13  concern or, in the alternative, a student shall be permitted to register
    14  and  vote  from  his  or  her residence within the college or university
    15  community if he or she regards the college or university as the communi-
    16  ty of primary concern.
    17    § 3. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-201 to read
    18  as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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