Bill Text: NY S02099 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-05 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO ELECTIONS [S02099 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02099-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2099--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. MAYER, BROOKS, JACKSON, LIU, MYRIE -- read twice and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary  in  accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring that  subpoe-
          nas  relating  to  election matters be served with a separate informa-
          tional sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 16-102 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. A subpoena issued in relation to this article shall require  that
     4  the  subpoena  be served with a separate informational sheet that summa-
     5  rizes why the subpoena has been issued, that the case is not related  to
     6  a  criminal action, that the person to whom the subpoena is being served
     7  does not currently face criminal charges related to  the  case,  specify
     8  that  the  action  is  related to the upcoming election of the pertinent
     9  office and the consequences of not following the subpoena.  The informa-
    10  tional sheet shall be affixed to the subpoena being served and shall  be
    11  written  in plain language and printed in a format and type size that is
    12  clear and easy to read.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06029-02-0
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