File #: Int 0690-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring the New York city department of education to provide voter registration forms to all eighteen year old students.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 1/30/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to provide voter registration forms to all eighteen year old students.
Sponsors: Darlene Mealy, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, James Sanders, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin, John C. Liu, Alan J. Gerson, Tony Avella, David Yassky, Thomas White, Jr., Melissa Mark-Viverito, Daniel R. Garodnick, Rosie Mendez, Bill De Blasio, Erik Martin Dilan, Gale A. Brewer, Robert Jackson
Council Member Sponsors: 21

Int. No. 690

 

By Council Members Mealy, Fidler, Gentile, James, Koppell, Sanders Jr., Seabrook, Stewart, Weprin, Liu, Gerson, Avella, Yassky, White Jr., Mark-Viverito, Garodnick, Mendez, de Blasio, Dilan, Brewer and Jackson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to provide voter registration forms to all eighteen year old students.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Subdivision c of section 3-209 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law thirty four of the year 2004, is amended to read as follows:

c. Registration of [graduating seniors]students. (i) The department of education of the city of New York shall provide a postage paid board of elections of the city of New York voter registration form to each graduating student who receives a high school diploma, including but not limited to a Regents, local, general equivalency or Individualized Education Program diploma. The department shall deliver such voter registration form to each graduating student at the same time and in the same manner as it delivers diplomas to each such student[.]; or

(ii) The department of education of the city of New York shall provide a postage paid board of elections of the city of New York voter registration form to each student in the public school system within thirty days of each such student’s eighteenth birthday; provided, however, that if such student turns eighteen during the regularly scheduled summer recess period the department of education shall provide each such student such voter registration form within thirty days of the start of the school year. The department of education shall promulgate rules prescribing the manner in which such forms shall be distributed.  

§2.  This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law.

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11/21/07