Int 2391-2021
Requiring a report on voter registration in city jails.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Criminal Justiceintroduced 2021-08-26
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2021-08-26Passed: 2021-12-31
Summary
This bill would require the Department of Correction to annually report on voter registration activities in city jails.
Committee on Criminal Justice — Department of Correction [ and], Department of Probation, and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.
How it compares
38% of similar bills passed
19 passed · 31 died
This bill: 127 days in committee
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Sponsors (4)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2021-08-26 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2021-08-26 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2021-08-26 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 2391
- Int. No. 2391
- August 26, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-26-21
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - August 26, 2021
Full text
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 9-161 to read as follows:
� 9-161 Voter registration report. a. No later than January 31, 2022 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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