Senate Bill S2297

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the disclosure of the applicant's social security number when registering to vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S2297 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5-212, El L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S7621

2021-S2297 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the disclosure of the applicant's social security number when registering to vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license.

2021-S2297 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2297 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2297
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. JORDAN, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, LANZA, O'MARA,
   ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
   ted to the Committee on Elections
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring  the  disclo-
   sure  of  the  applicant's  social security number when registering to
   vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 5-212 of the election law, as
 added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   3. The voter registration portion of such forms:
   (a) shall not require any information that duplicates the  information
 required  on  the  application  for the driver license portion and shall
 require only such  additional  information,  including  the  applicant's
 signature,  as  will enable election officials to assess the applicant's
 eligibility to register to vote, prevent duplicate registration  and  to
 administer voter registration and other parts of the election process.
   (b)  shall  include  a  statement  of the eligibility requirements for
 voter registration and shall require the applicant to attest by  his  OR
 HER  signature  that he OR SHE meets those requirements under penalty of
 perjury.
   (c) shall inform the applicant, in print identical to that used in the
 attestation section of the following:
   (i) voter eligibility requirements;
   (ii) penalties for submission of false registration application;
   (iii) that the office where applicant registers shall remain confiden-
 tial and the information be used only for voter registration purposes;
   (iv) if the applicant declines to register,  his  OR  HER  declination
 shall  remain  confidential  and  be  used  only  for voter registration
 purposes[;].

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00887-01-1

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