Assembly Bill A6194

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to removal of deceased voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to vote from the statewide voter registration list

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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
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2023-A6194 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5-614, El L

2023-A6194 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires bi-monthly reporting on deceased voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to vote in order to accurately maintain the statewide voter registration list.

2023-A6194 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6194
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to removal of deceased
   voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to  vote
   from the statewide voter registration list

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 5-614 of the election  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  24  of  the laws of 2005, are amended to read as
 follows:
   5. For purposes of removing names of ineligible voters from  the  list
 of eligible voters, the state board of elections shall obtain and trans-
 mit  to  local  boards of elections, BI-MONTHLY, (a) the list of persons
 who have died maintained by the New York city department of  health  and
 the  state  department of health, and (b) the list of persons subject to
 forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106 of this  arti-
 cle  maintained  by  the  office  of  court administration or by a court
 having made such determination.
   6. Each local board of elections shall, within [twenty-five]  FOURTEEN
 days  after  receiving such list of decedents or list of persons subject
 to forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to  section  5-106  of  this
 article,  use  such  lists  to identify and remove decedents and persons
 subject to forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106  of
 this article from the list of eligible voters.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10403-01-3

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