Requires local boards of education, BOCES, charter schools and non public schools to adopt policies to promote student voter registration and pre-registration, including procedures for providing access to voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school year and assistance with filing such applications and informing students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-registration.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5180--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE, CONRAD, McMAHON, COLTON, SEAWRIGHT,
DARLING, DINOWITZ, GUNTHER, ZINERMAN, THIELE, SIMON, STECK, JACOBSON,
SILLITTI, HEVESI, SEPTIMO, JACKSON, FORREST -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to encouraging student
voter registration and pre-registration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 5-507 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 2 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. Encouragement of student voter registration and pre-registration.
4 Local boards of education, boards of cooperative educational services,
5 charter schools and non public schools are required to adopt policies to
6 promote student voter registration and pre-registration. These policies
7 may include collaboration with county boards of elections to conduct
8 voter registration and pre-registration in high schools and shall
9 include, but not be limited to, procedures for: (i) providing access to
10 voter registration and pre-registration applications during the school
11 year and assistance with filing such applications; and (ii) informing
12 students of the state requirements for voter registration and pre-regis-
13 tration. Completion and submission of voter registration or pre-regis-
14 tration forms shall not be a course requirement or graded assignment for
15 students.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
17 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the
18 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
19 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
20 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04510-08-3
