Requires that all electronic tax preparation software offered for sale in the state of New York include a prompt providing a link to users of such software to a New York state voter registration application website.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5989
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the election law, in relation to requir-
ing tax preparation software to provide a link to voter registration
websites
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 171 of the tax law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision twenty-ninth to read as follows:
3 Twenty-ninth. Require that all electronic income tax preparation soft-
4 ware offered for sale or use in the state of New York include a prompt
5 providing a link to users of such software to a New York state voter
6 registration application website pursuant to section 5-231 of the
7 election law.
8 § 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-231 to read
9 as follows:
10 § 5-231. Electronic income tax voter registration. The department of
11 taxation and finance, in consultation with the state board of elections,
12 shall require that all electronic income tax preparation software
13 offered for sale or use in the state of New York include a prompt to
14 users of such software which shall provide a link to a New York state
15 voter registration application website.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02729-01-3
