Bill Text: NY S00321 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds a voter's e-mail address and telephone number to the information contained on a voter registration application that is not available for public inspection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00321 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00321-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           321

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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 adding a voter's e-mail
          address and telephone number to the information contained on  a  voter
          registration application that is not available for public inspection

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-220  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  104  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. All registration  records,  certificates,  lists,  and  inventories
     5  referred to in, or required by, this chapter shall be public records and
     6  open  to  public inspection under the immediate supervision of the board
     7  of elections or its employees and subject to such reasonable regulations
     8  as such board may impose, provided, however,  that  a  voter's  driver's
     9  license  number, department of motor vehicle non-driver photo ID number,
    10  social security number, e-mail address, telephone number  and  facsimile
    11  number  shall  not  be  released  for public inspection. No such records
    12  shall be handled at any time by any person other  than  a  member  of  a
    13  registration  board  or  board  of  inspectors  of elections or board of
    14  elections except as provided by rules imposed by the board of elections.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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