Bill Text: NY A02372 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Excludes voter registration lists from the sources of names for prospective jurors to be selected at random by commissioners of jurors.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to judiciary [A02372 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A02372-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2372
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to excluding voter regis-
tration lists from the sources of names for jurors
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 506 of the judiciary law, as amended by section 109
2 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 S 506. Source of names. The commissioner of jurors shall cause the
5 names of prospective jurors to be selected at random [from the voter
6 registration lists, and] from such [other] available lists of the resi-
7 dents of the county as the chief administrator of the courts shall spec-
8 ify, such as lists of utility subscribers, licensed operators of motor
9 vehicles, registered owners of motor vehicles, state and local taxpay-
10 ers, persons applying for or receiving family assistance, medical
11 assistance or safety net assistance, persons receiving state unemploy-
12 ment benefits and persons who have volunteered to serve as jurors by
13 filing with the commissioner their names and places of residence.
14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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