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                                   2399
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. COMRIE, HOYLMAN, LATIMER, PERKINS -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Elections
 
 AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to automatic voter regis-
   tration
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 1, 14 and 15 of section 5-212 of the election
 law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. In addition to any other method of voter registration provided  for
 in  this  article,  any  qualified person may apply for registration and
 enrollment EITHER by application made simultaneously and integrated with
 an application for a motor vehicle driver's license, a driver's  license
 renewal  or  an  identification  card  if  such  a card is issued by the
 department of motor vehicles in its normal course of business OR BY  THE
 DEPARTMENT   OF  MOTOR  VEHICLES  PROVIDING  THE  APPROPRIATE  BOARD  OF
 ELECTIONS WITH ELECTRONIC RECORDS OF EACH PERSON WHO QUALIFIES TO  VOTE,
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWELVE-A OF THIS SECTION.
   14.  The  state  board shall develop and distribute public information
 and promotional materials relating to the purposes and implementation of
 [this program] THESE PROGRAMS.
   15. The state board shall prepare and distribute to the department  of
 motor  vehicles  written  instructions  as to the implementation of [the
 program] THESE PROGRAMS and shall be responsible for establishing train-
 ing programs for employees of the department of motor vehicles  involved
 in such [program] PROGRAMS.
   §  2.  Section  5-212  of  the election law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00219-01-7

              

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   12-A. IN ADDITION TO COMPLETING AN APPLICATION  FOR  REGISTRATION  AND
 ENROLLMENT  BY  APPLICATION,  A PERSON MAY ALSO BE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN
 THE FOLLOWING MANNER:
   (A)  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  MOTOR VEHICLES SHALL ESTABLISH A SCHEDULE BY
 WHICH IT PROVIDES TO THE STATE BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS  ELECTRONIC  RECORDS
 CONTAINING  THE  LEGAL  NAME, AGE, RESIDENCE AND CITIZENSHIP INFORMATION
 FOR, AND THE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE OF, EACH PERSON WHO  IS  QUALIFIED  TO
 VOTE UNDER SECTION 5-102 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   (B) UPON RECEIVING THE ELECTRONIC RECORD FOR, AND ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
 OF,  A  PERSON DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE
 BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL PROVIDE  THE  INFORMATION  TO  THE  APPROPRIATE
 COUNTY  BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS  IN WHICH THE PERSON MAY BE REGISTERED AS A
 VOTER. THE APPROPRIATE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL SEND EACH  PERSON
 A NOTIFICATION DIRECTING HIM OR HER TO:
   (I) DECLINE BEING REGISTERED AS A VOTER; OR
   (II) ADOPT A POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION.
   (C)  IF A PERSON NOTIFIED UNDER PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION DOES
 NOT DECLINE TO BE REGISTERED AS A VOTER WITHIN TWENTY-ONE CALENDAR  DAYS
 AFTER  THE  COUNTY  BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS  ISSUES  THE  NOTIFICATION, THE
 PERSON'S ELECTRONIC RECORD  AND  ELECTRONIC  SIGNATURE  SUBMITTED  UNDER
 PARAGRAPH  (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION WILL CONSTITUTE A COMPLETED REGISTRA-
 TION APPLICATION FOR THE PERSON FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION.    THE
 PERSON  SHALL  BE  REGISTERED  TO  VOTE IF THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
 DETERMINES THAT THE PERSON IS QUALIFIED  TO  VOTE  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
 5-102 OF THIS ARTICLE, AND THE PERSON IS NOT ALREADY REGISTERED TO VOTE.
   (D)  A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS MAY NOT SEND A BALLOT TO, OR ADD TO A
 VOTER REGISTRATION LIST, A PERSON  WHO  MEETS  ELIGIBILITY  REQUIREMENTS
 UNTIL  AT  LEAST  TWENTY-ONE  CALENDAR  DAYS  AFTER  THE COUNTY BOARD OF
 ELECTIONS PROVIDED NOTIFICATION TO THE PERSON AS DESCRIBED IN  PARAGRAPH
 (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.