STATE OF NEW YORK
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1841
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the confidentiality of
certain voter registration records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-220 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 104 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. All registration records, certificates, lists, and inventories
5 referred to in, or required by, this chapter shall be public records and
6 open to public inspection under the immediate supervision of the board
7 of elections or its employees and subject to such reasonable regulations
8 as such board may impose, provided, however, that a voter's driver's
9 license number, department of motor vehicle non-driver photo ID number,
10 social security number, email address, telephone number and facsimile
11 number shall not be released for public inspection. No such records
12 shall be handled at any time by any person other than a member of a
13 registration board or board of inspectors of elections or board of
14 elections except as provided by rules imposed by the board of elections.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05235-01-9
