Bill Text: NY S05073 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes a school voter registration access program to promote student voter registration and pre-registration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-11 - referred to education [S05073 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05073-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5073--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 8, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAYER, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, LIU, MAY, MONT- GOMERY, RAMOS, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a school voter registration access program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 25 to 2 read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 25 4 SCHOOL VOTER REGISTRATION ACCESS 5 Section 1301. School voter registration access. 6 § 1301. School voter registration access. Each school district, board 7 of cooperative educational services, charter school, and non-public 8 school shall adopt a policy to promote student voter registration and 9 pre-registration pursuant to chapter two of the laws of two thousand 10 nineteen. Such policy shall, in accordance with the provisions of this 11 article, require all schools operated by such school districts, boards 12 of cooperative educational services, charter schools, and non-public 13 schools serving any or all of grades ten, eleven, and twelve to make 14 available access to voter registration and pre-registration applications 15 during the school year for the purposes of educating students about the 16 voting enrollment process and providing eligible students with the 17 opportunity to register or pre-register to vote as applicable. Such 18 policy shall include procedures for acquiring and transmitting voter 19 registration and pre-registration applications to and from the local 20 board of elections and dissemination among their appropriate schools, 21 methods of regular communication with eligible students on the avail- 22 ability of such applications and their right to register or pre-register EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09318-11-9S. 5073--A 2 1 to vote and may include collaboration with local boards of elections and 2 outside organizations to assist in making available voter registration 3 and pre-registration applications in any school serving any or all of 4 grades ten, eleven, and twelve. Completion and submission of voter 5 registration or pre-registration forms shall not be a course requirement 6 or graded assignment for students. Local boards of elections shall 7 comply with requests from school districts, boards of cooperative educa- 8 tional services, charter schools, and non-public schools to transmit the 9 requested number of registration and pre-registration applications in 10 such manner as requested. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020. Effective immediately 12 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 13 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 14 authorized to be made on or before such date.