Int 1093-2023
Requiring a report on voter registration in city jails.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Criminal Justiceintroduced 2023-06-08
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2023-06-08Passed: 2023-12-31
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: 206 days in committee
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Sponsors (11)
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams(prime)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2023-06-08 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2023-06-08 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2023-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2023-06-08 · 12:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 1093
- Int. No. 1093
- June 8, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-8-23
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - June 8, 2023
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 9-163 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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