Bill Text: NY A05277 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the notification of county boards of elections of an individual's death and the subsequent removal of such voter's name from the applicable registration roll.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A05277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05277-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5277

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. FLOOD -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the election law, in  relation
          to notifying county boards of elections of an individual's death

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4140 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  476  of  the  laws  of 2002, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. The commissioner and the department of health of the  city  of  New
     5  York  shall  deliver to the state board of elections[, at least monthly]
     6  immediately, but no later than seven business days, records in a  format
     7  as  mutually determined by both agencies, of the names of all persons of
     8  voting age for whom death certificates were issued. Such  records  shall
     9  be arranged by county of residence and shall include the name, residence
    10  address  and  birth  date  of  each  such  person.  Upon receipt of such
    11  records, the state board of elections shall provide such information  to
    12  each  affected  county  board of elections immediately but no later than
    13  seven business days.
    14    § 2. Section 5-400 of the election law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    15  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    16    3.  Upon  notification by the state board of elections of a registered
    17  voter's death pursuant to subdivision three of section forty-one hundred
    18  forty of the public health  law,  such  voter's  registration  shall  be
    19  cancelled and immediately removed from the registration roll.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07741-02-3