A06610 Summary:

BILL NOA06610
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05367
 
SPONSORGantt
 
COSPNSROrtiz, Blake, O'Donnell, Jaffee, Cook, Englebright, Arroyo, Joyner, Zebrowski, Colton, Pichardo, Weprin, Hooper, Mayer, Lavine, Galef, Abinanti, Hyndman, Sepulveda, Lifton
 
MLTSPNSRBrennan, Buchwald, Glick, Lupardo, Peoples-Stokes, Simon, Solages, Steck
 
Amd S5-212, El L
 
Relates to automatic voter registration.
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A06610 Actions:

BILL NOA06610
 
03/27/2015referred to election law
01/06/2016referred to election law
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A06610 Committee Votes:

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A06610 Floor Votes:

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A06610 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6610
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 27, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to automatic voter  regis-
          tration
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 14 and 15 of section 5-212 of the  election
     2  law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  In addition to any other method of voter registration provided for
     5  in this article, any qualified person may  apply  for  registration  and
     6  enrollment either by application made simultaneously and integrated with
     7  an  application for a motor vehicle driver's license, a driver's license
     8  renewal or an identification card if  such  a  card  is  issued  by  the
     9  department  of motor vehicles in its normal course of business or by the
    10  department  of  motor  vehicles  providing  the  appropriate  board   of
    11  elections  with electronic records of each person who qualifies to vote,
    12  pursuant to subdivision twelve-a of this section.
    13    14. The state board shall develop and  distribute  public  information
    14  and promotional materials relating to the purposes and implementation of
    15  [this program] these programs.
    16    15.  The state board shall prepare and distribute to the department of
    17  motor vehicles written instructions as to  the  implementation  of  [the
    18  program] these programs and shall be responsible for establishing train-
    19  ing  programs for employees of the department of motor vehicles involved
    20  in such [program] programs.
    21    § 2. Section 5-212 of the election law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    22  subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
    23    12-a.  In  addition  to completing an application for registration and
    24  enrollment by application, a person may also be registered  to  vote  in
    25  the following manner:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10114-01-5

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     1    (a)  The  department  of  motor vehicles shall establish a schedule by
     2  which it provides to the state board  of  elections  electronic  records
     3  containing  the  legal  name, age, residence and citizenship information
     4  for, and the electronic signature of, each person who  is  qualified  to
     5  vote under section 5-102 of this article.
     6    (b) Upon receiving the electronic record for, and electronic signature
     7  of,  a  person described in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the state
     8  board of elections shall provide  the  information  to  the  appropriate
     9  county  board  of  elections  in which the person may be registered as a
    10  voter. The appropriate county board of elections shall send each  person
    11  a notification directing him or her to:
    12    (i) decline being registered as a voter; or
    13    (ii) adopt a political party affiliation.
    14    (c)  If a person notified under paragraph (b) of this subdivision does
    15  not decline to be registered as a voter within twenty-one calendar  days
    16  after  the  county  board  of  elections  issues  the  notification, the
    17  person's electronic record  and  electronic  signature  submitted  under
    18  paragraph  (a) of this subdivision will constitute a completed registra-
    19  tion application for the person for  purposes  of  this  section.    The
    20  person  shall  be  registered  to  vote if the county board of elections
    21  determines that the person is qualified  to  vote  pursuant  to  section
    22  5-102 of this article, and the person is not already registered to vote.
    23    (d)  A county board of elections may not send a ballot to, or add to a
    24  voter registration list, a person  who  meets  eligibility  requirements
    25  until  at  least  twenty-one  calendar  days  after  the county board of
    26  elections provided notification to the person as described in  paragraph
    27  (b) of this subdivision.
    28    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    29  have become a law.
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