Senate Bill S6168

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to notices to voters of registration cancellation or inactive status

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee


  • 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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2023-S6168 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6764
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§5-213, 5-402 & 5-712, El L

2023-S6168 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Ensures that boards of elections provide adequate notice to each voter before and after a board cancels the voter's registration or places such voter in inactive status.

2023-S6168 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6168 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6168
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 notices  to  voters  of
   registration cancellation or inactive status
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 5-213 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6. WHEN A BOARD OF ELECTIONS PLACES A VOTER'S REGISTRATION IN INACTIVE
 STATUS, THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL NOTIFY THE VOTER IMMEDIATELY USING:
 (A)  FIRST  CLASS  FORWARDABLE  MAIL  ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESS WHERE THE
 BOARD BELIEVES THE VOTER NOW RESIDES; (B) FIRST CLASS  FORWARDABLE  MAIL
 ADDRESSED  TO  THE  ADDRESS  WHERE  THE VOTER IS REGISTERED; AND (C) ANY
 EMAIL  ADDRESSES  AND  TELEPHONE  NUMBERS  THAT  ARE  IN  THE  BOARD  OF
 ELECTIONS'  REGISTRATION  RECORDS  FOR  THE  VOTER.  SUCH  NOTICES SHALL
 EXPLAIN THE REASON WHY THE VOTER HAS BEEN PLACED IN INACTIVE STATUS. THE
 STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL ESTABLISH  UNIFORM,  STATEWIDE  FORMS  OF
 NOTICE FOR THIS PURPOSE.
   § 2. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 5-402 of the election law, subdi-
 vision  2 as amended by chapter 94 of the laws of 1997 and subdivision 3
 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, are  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
   2. Whenever the board has reason to believe that a registered voter is
 no  longer  qualified  to  vote,  it shall, before cancelling his OR HER
 registration, notify him OR HER, in a UNIFORM, STATEWIDE  form  approved
 by the state board of elections, [by first class forwardable mail to the
 address from which he was last registered] USING ALL OF THE NOTIFICATION
 METHODS  PRESCRIBED  BY  SUBDIVISION  FIVE  OF THIS SECTION, WHICH SHALL
 STATE THE REASON WHY THE VOTER'S REGISTRATION  IS  BEING  CANCELLED  AND
 that he OR SHE may appear before the board or answer in writing by mail,
 stating the reasons why his OR HER registration should not be cancelled.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10591-01-3
              

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