S05073 Summary:

BILL NOS05073A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A08717
 
SPONSORMAYER
 
COSPNSRBIAGGI, COMRIE, GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAPLAN, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, METZGER, MONTGOMERY, MYRIE, RAMOS, STAVISKY
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add Art 25 §1301, Ed L
 
Establishes a school voter registration access program to promote student voter registration and pre-registration.
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S05073 Actions:

BILL NOS05073A
 
04/08/2019REFERRED TO EDUCATION
06/12/2019AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
06/12/2019PRINT NUMBER 5073A
06/19/2019COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/19/2019ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1772
06/19/2019PASSED SENATE
06/19/2019DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/19/2019referred to education
01/08/2020died in assembly
01/08/2020returned to senate
01/08/2020REFERRED TO EDUCATION
01/14/20201ST REPORT CAL.152
01/15/20202ND REPORT CAL.
01/21/2020ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
03/11/2020PASSED SENATE
03/11/2020DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
03/11/2020referred to education
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S05073 Committee Votes:

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S05073 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S05073 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5073--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      April 8, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. MAYER, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, LIU, MAY, MONT-
          GOMERY, RAMOS, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Education -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a  school
          voter registration access program
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 25  to
     2  read as follows:
     3                                  ARTICLE 25
     4                      SCHOOL VOTER REGISTRATION ACCESS
     5  Section 1301. School voter registration access.
     6    §  1301. School voter registration access. Each school district, board
     7  of cooperative educational  services,  charter  school,  and  non-public
     8  school  shall  adopt  a policy to promote student voter registration and
     9  pre-registration pursuant to chapter two of the  laws  of  two  thousand
    10  nineteen.  Such  policy shall, in accordance with the provisions of this
    11  article, require all schools operated by such school  districts,  boards
    12  of  cooperative  educational  services,  charter schools, and non-public
    13  schools serving any or all of grades ten, eleven,  and  twelve  to  make
    14  available access to voter registration and pre-registration applications
    15  during  the school year for the purposes of educating students about the
    16  voting enrollment process  and  providing  eligible  students  with  the
    17  opportunity  to  register  or  pre-register  to vote as applicable. Such
    18  policy shall include procedures for  acquiring  and  transmitting  voter
    19  registration  and  pre-registration  applications  to and from the local
    20  board of elections and dissemination among  their  appropriate  schools,
    21  methods  of  regular  communication with eligible students on the avail-
    22  ability of such applications and their right to register or pre-register
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09318-11-9

        S. 5073--A                          2
 
     1  to vote and may include collaboration with local boards of elections and
     2  outside organizations to assist in making available  voter  registration
     3  and  pre-registration  applications  in any school serving any or all of
     4  grades  ten,  eleven,  and  twelve.  Completion  and submission of voter
     5  registration or pre-registration forms shall not be a course requirement
     6  or graded assignment for students.   Local  boards  of  elections  shall
     7  comply with requests from school districts, boards of cooperative educa-
     8  tional services, charter schools, and non-public schools to transmit the
     9  requested  number  of  registration and pre-registration applications in
    10  such manner as requested.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.   Effective  immediately
    12  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    13  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    14  authorized to be made on or before such date.
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