File #: Int 0402-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring a report on voter registration in city jails.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Criminal Justice
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a report on voter registration in city jails
Sponsors: Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Keith Powers , Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, (by request of the Bronx Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Correction to annually report on voter registration activities in city jails.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 402, 2. Int. No. 402, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24
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Int. No. 402

 

By the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams) and Council Members Powers, Restler, Brewer and Hanif (by request of the Bronx Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring a report on voter registration in city jails

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 9 of the administrative code is amended by adding a new section 9-163 to read as follows:

§ 9-163 Voter registration report. a. No later than January 31, 2023 and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor, speaker of the council and the public advocate and shall post conspicuously on the department’s website an annual report regarding voter registration in city jails. Such report shall include the following information for the previous calendar year:

1. The number of events held to promote voter registration and voting;

2. The number of completed voter registration forms returned to the department from incarcerated individuals, in total and disaggregated by facility and by the race, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status and veteran status of such individual; and

3. The number of absentee ballots the department distributed to incarcerated individuals, in total and disaggregated by facility.

b. The report required by this section must not contain personally identifiable information.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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