STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 1100 A. 774 2019-2020 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY January 10, 2019 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, BROOKS, COMRIE, GAUGHRAN, GIANARIS, GOUNARDES, HARCK- HAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, LIU, MARTINEZ, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MONTGOMERY, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, GALEF, BUCHWALD, LUPARDO, L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, ENGLEBRIGHT, ABINANTI, STIRPE, LIFTON, DINOWITZ, BLAKE, ZEBROWSKI, SIMON, JAFFEE, COLTON, WALKER, ORTIZ, EPSTEIN, BURKE, CARROLL, CRUZ, EICHENSTEIN, FALL, FRONTUS, GLICK, GRIFFIN, HEASTIE, JACOBSON, McMAHON, OTIS, RAYNOR, REYES, WEINSTEIN -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. LENTOL, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to voter pre-registration The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph o of subdivision 4 of section 5-500 of the 2 election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended 3 and a new paragraph p is added to read as follows: 4 o. A space for "remarks" regarding other facts required by this chap- 5 ter to be recorded or appropriate to identify the voter[.]; 6 p. A space for pre-registering applicants to respond to the following 7 question: "Are you at least 16 years of age and understand that you must 8 be 18 years of age on or before election day to vote, and that until you 9 will be eighteen years of age at the time of such election your regis- 10 tration will be marked 'pending' and you will be unable to cast a ballot 11 in any election?". EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04590-03-9

S. 1100 2 A. 774 1 § 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 5-507 to read 2 as follows: 3 § 5-507. Voter pre-registration and education on voter pre-registra- 4 tion. 1. Pre-registration. A person who is at least sixteen years of 5 age and who is otherwise qualified to register to vote may pre-register 6 to vote, and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of 7 eligibility as provided by this chapter. 8 2. Encouragement of student voter registration and pre-registration. 9 Local boards of education are required to adopt policies to promote 10 student voter registration and pre-registration. These policies may 11 include collaboration with county boards of elections to conduct voter 12 registration and pre-registration in high schools. Completion and 13 submission of voter registration or pre-registration forms shall not be 14 a course requirement or graded assignment for students. 15 § 3. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 5 of section 5-210 of the election 16 law, as amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read 17 as follows: 18 (g) Notice that the applicant must be a citizen of the United States, 19 [~~is or will be at least eighteen years old not later than December thir-~~ 20 ~~ty-first of the calendar year in which he or she registers~~] is at least 21 sixteen years old when he or she submits an application to register to 22 vote which will be effective for elections occurring on or after the 23 applicant turns eighteen years of age and a resident of the county or 24 city to which application is made. 25 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 26 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, 27 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 28 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 29 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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