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Assembly Bill A5106

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Excludes voter registration lists from the sources of names for prospective jurors to be selected at random by commissioners of jurors

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2009-A5106 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง506, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A2372
2013-2014: A1683

2009-A5106 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes voter registration lists from the sources of names for prospective jurors to be selected at random by commissioners of jurors.

2009-A5106 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5106

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to excluding voter regis-
  tration lists from the sources of names for jurors

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 506 of the judiciary law, as amended by section 109
of  part  B  of  chapter  436 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
follows:
  S 506. Source of names. The commissioner of  jurors  shall  cause  the
names  of  prospective  jurors  to be selected at random [from the voter
registration lists, and] from such [other] available lists of the  resi-
dents of the county as the chief administrator of the courts shall spec-
ify,  such  as lists of utility subscribers, licensed operators of motor
vehicles, registered owners of motor vehicles, state and  local  taxpay-
ers,  persons  applying  for  or  receiving  family  assistance, medical
assistance or safety net assistance, persons receiving  state  unemploy-
ment  benefits  and  persons  who have volunteered to serve as jurors by
filing with the commissioner their names and places of residence.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08591-01-9

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