Enacts the young adult voter registration act; requires each public high school within the state to make voter registration forms available to all students.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1453
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to enacting the young
adult voter registration act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "young
2 adult voter registration act".
3 § 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-231 to read
4 as follows:
5 § 5-231. Young adult voter registration. 1. Registration of voters.
6 Each public high school within the state shall make available during the
7 school year to all students such materials as may be published by the
8 board of elections relating to voter registration and, where appropri-
9 ate, shall provide applications for registration and enrollment, and may
10 assist in the execution of such applications.
11 2. Registration of young adults. Each school district shall distrib-
12 ute a voter registration form to any student seventeen years old or
13 older that will be eighteen years old at the time of the next general
14 election.
15 3. Forms to be available at school. The state education department
16 shall ensure that voter registration forms provided by the board of
17 elections are available in the main or central office of each high
18 school under the jurisdiction of the department for students who wish to
19 obtain one. The department shall also ensure that each such high school
20 provides adequate notice to its students of the availability of such
21 forms in its main or central office.
22 4. Sufficient quantity of forms. The department shall request from the
23 board of elections a sufficient quantity of voter registration forms to
24 meet the requirements of this section.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06335-01-9
