The New York City Council - File #: Int 0733-2018

• File #: Int 0733-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Improving young adults’ access to voter registration materials.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 3/22/2018
• In control: Committee on Governmental Operations
• On agenda: 3/22/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to improving young adults' access to voter registration materials by requiring the department of education of the city of New York and the board of elections of the city of New York to provide students with registration materials in appropriate languages and to track and report on the efficacy of distributing registration materials to students
• Sponsors: Ben Kallos, Helen K. Rosenthal, Mark Treyger, Alicka Ampry-Samuel

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/22/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
3/22/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 733

By Council Members Kallos, Rosenthal, Treyger and Ampry-Samuel

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to improving young adults' access to voter registration materials by requiring the department of education of the city of New York and the board of elections of the city of New York to provide students with registration materials in appropriate languages and to track and report on the efficacy of distributing registration materials to students
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 3-209 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
? 3-209 Young Adult Voter Registration.
a. Short title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Young Adult Voter Registration Act."
b. Coded voter registration forms. The board of elections of the city of New York shall assign a code to each geographic school district and create voter registration materials that include these codes. Upon request by the department of education of the city of New York, the city board of elections shall provide voter registration forms, either in printed form or in a format suitable for printing, to each public or private high school within the city that are coded for the geographic school district in which that high school is physically located.
c. Provision of voter registration materials to students and graduates.[Registration of voters.]
1. Each public or private high school within the city shall distribute[make available] during the school year to seniors such materials as may be published by the board of elections relating to voter registration and, where appropriate, shall provide [applications for registration and enrollment, ]students with voter registration forms that contain the appropriate code assigned by the city board of elections, and may assist in the execution of such applications.
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