Bill Text: NY A07027 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands voter registration to include registration by any agency or entity that accepts an application or collects a fee in exchange for a government or educational service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - held for consideration in election law [A07027 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A07027-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7027 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 21, 2021 ___________ 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 expanding voter regis- tration to include registration by certain agencies or entities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 5-900 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 13. (a) Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-three, designated 5 agencies for purposes of this section shall include the department of 6 motor vehicles. 7 (b) Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-four, designated 8 agencies for the purposes of this section shall also include: 9 (i) the department of health, the office of temporary and disability 10 assistance, the department of labor, the office of adult career and 11 continuing education services - vocational rehabilitation, county and 12 city departments of social services, and the New York city housing 13 authority[, as well as]; 14 (ii) any other agency or entity that accepts an application or 15 collects a fee in exchange for a government or educational service, 16 which includes but is not limited to the following: 17 (A) the department of agriculture and markets; 18 (B) the department of taxation and finance; 19 (C) the department of environmental conservation; 20 (D) the department of financial services; 21 (E) the state insurance fund; 22 (F) the office of the professions; 23 (G) the division of licensing services; 24 (H) the empire state development corporation; 25 (I) the state liquor authority; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10459-02-1A. 7027 2 1 (J) the state workers' compensation board; 2 (K) the division of military and naval affairs; 3 (L) the office of real property tax services and local assessors; 4 (M) public and private colleges and universities and career and voca- 5 tional schools; and 6 (N) any municipal offices processing pistol permits, birth, marriage 7 or death certificates, hunting and fishing licenses, building permits 8 and economic development applications. 9 (iii) any other agency designated by the governor. 10 [Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-five, designated agen-11cies for the purposes of this section shall also include the state12university of New York.] 13 (c) Each designated agency shall enter into an agreement with the 14 state board of elections finalizing the format and content of electronic 15 transmissions required by this section. The state board of elections 16 shall prepare and distribute to designated agencies written instructions 17 as to the implementation of the program and shall be responsible for 18 establishing training programs for employees of designated agencies 19 listed in this section. Such instructions and such training shall ensure 20 usability of the integrated application for low English proficiency 21 voters. Any such designated agency shall take all actions that are 22 necessary and proper for the implementation of this section, including 23 facilitating technological capabilities to allow transmission of data 24 through an interface with the electronic voter registration transmittal 25 system in a secure manner. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 27 manner as section 1 of chapter 37 of the laws of 2021, takes effect.
