New York Assembly Bill A05180 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5180--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 3, 2023 ___________ 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