Bill Text: NY S02297 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the disclosure of the applicant's social security number when registering to vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S02297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02297-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2297

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. JORDAN, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, LANZA, O'MARA,
          ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
          ted to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring  the  disclo-
          sure  of  the  applicant's  social security number when registering to
          vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license

          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 5-212 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3. The voter registration portion of such forms:
     4    (a) shall not require any information that duplicates the  information
     5  required  on  the  application  for the driver license portion and shall
     6  require only such  additional  information,  including  the  applicant's
     7  signature,  as  will enable election officials to assess the applicant's
     8  eligibility to register to vote, prevent duplicate registration  and  to
     9  administer voter registration and other parts of the election process.
    10    (b)  shall  include  a  statement  of the eligibility requirements for
    11  voter registration and shall require the applicant to attest by  his  or
    12  her  signature  that he or she meets those requirements under penalty of
    13  perjury.
    14    (c) shall inform the applicant, in print identical to that used in the
    15  attestation section of the following:
    16    (i) voter eligibility requirements;
    17    (ii) penalties for submission of false registration application;
    18    (iii) that the office where applicant registers shall remain confiden-
    19  tial and the information be used only for voter registration purposes;
    20    (iv) if the applicant declines to register,  his  or  her  declination
    21  shall  remain  confidential  and  be  used  only  for voter registration
    22  purposes[;].

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00887-01-1
        S. 2297                             2

     1    (d) notwithstanding any  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  shall
     2  require the applicant to provide his or her social security number.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed on or before such effective date.