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A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to improving compliance with the city's pro-voter law.

This bill would require the mayoral agencies covered by the city’s agency-based voter registration law, which requires nineteen agencies to distribute voter registration forms to individuals who are applying for, renewing, or submitting a change of address with respect to, services, to report twice a year on their implementation of the law. A recent report by a coalition of good government groups found that compliance with the registration law has been lacking. The semi-annual reporting would include data on the number of registration forms distributed and mailed to the Board of Elections. It would go to the Mayor’s Office of Operations, which would consolidate the reports into a single report that it would submit to the Speaker.

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History

Dec 12, 2014
City Council
Recved from Mayor by Council
Dec 12, 2014
Mayor
Signed Into Law by Mayor
Dec 12, 2014
Mayor
Hearing Scheduled by Mayor
Dec 3, 2014
City Council
Sent to Mayor by Council
Dec 3, 2014
Mayor
Hearing Scheduled by Mayor
Nov 25, 2014
City Council
Pass
Approved by Council

Affirmative

Absent

Bereavement

Medical

Nov 24, 2014
Committee on Governmental Operations
Hearing Held by Committee
Nov 24, 2014
Committee on Governmental Operations
Amendment Proposed by Comm
Nov 24, 2014
Committee on Governmental Operations
Amended by Committee
Nov 24, 2014
Committee on Governmental Operations
Pass
Approved by Committee

Affirmative

Absent

Oct 23, 2014
Committee on Governmental Operations
Hearing Held by Committee
Oct 23, 2014
Committee on Governmental Operations
Laid Over by Committee
May 14, 2014
City Council
Referred to Comm by Council
May 14, 2014
City Council
Introduced by Council
Int. No. 356-A
 
By Council Members Williams, Constantinides, Levine, Mendez, Rodriguez, Rosenthal, Wills, Gibson, Reynoso, Menchaca, Richards, Miller, Barron, Kallos, Crowley, Koslowitz, Dickens, Cohen, Vacca, Garodnick, Arroyo, Van Bramer, Lander, Dromm, Eugene and Greenfield
 
 
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to improving compliance with the city's pro-voter law.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 1057-A of chapter forty-six of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subdivision eight to read as follows:
8. Each participating agency, other than community boards and the city clerk, shall submit semi-annual reports on their implementation of this section to the mayor's office of operations. Such reports shall include the number of registration forms distributed, the number of registration forms completed at an agency office to the extent readily ascertainable, and the number of registration forms transmitted to the board of elections. Such reports shall be submitted to the mayor's office of operations by January 15 and July 15 of each year, with the first reports due by July 15, 2015. The mayor's office of operations shall compile such reports into a single report that disaggregates such data by agency, and shall deliver such compiled report to the speaker by February 15 and August 15 of each year, with the first such report due by August 15, 2015.
§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
dss
LS 149/2014
Int 760/2010
11/17/14