Assembly Bill A1683

2013-2014 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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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A1683 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง506, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5106
2011-2012: A2372

2013-A1683 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2013-A1683 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1683

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, SALADINO -- read once and referred to the
  Committee 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.
                                                           LBD05989-01-3

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