Bill Text: NY S07983 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes the time period for the annual national change of address system check for registered voters to January.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-06 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07983 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07983-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7983 IN SENATE March 6, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to changing the time peri- od for the annual national change of address system check for regis- tered voters The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 5-708 of the 2 election law, as amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 a. At least once each year during the month of [February] January, 5 each board of elections shall obtain through the National Change of 6 Address System, the forwarding address for every voter registered with 7 such board of elections for whom the United States Postal Service has 8 such a forwarding address together with the name of each such voter whom 9 the Postal Service records indicate has moved from the address at which 10 he is registered without leaving a forwarding address. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15602-01-0