SENATE STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1098

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: OCTOBER 3, 1996

      The Senate State Government Committee reports favorably Senate, No. 1098.

      This bill provides that voter registration forms are to be displayed and made available at the office of the registrar of any public institution of higher education to each eligible enrolled student at and each eligible prospective student of the institution who, when appearing in person at that office, may wish on a voluntary basis to register to vote.

      The bill also states that the voter registration forms and instructions shall be provided in both the English and Spanish languages to each office of registration that is located in any county in which bilingual sample ballots must be provided pursuant to current law.

      Public institutions of higher education are defined in N.J.S.18A:62-1 as "the six state colleges; the county colleges; the public junior colleges; the New Jersey college of medicine and dentistry; the college of aeronautical and airspace science...; the industrial schools: Newark college of engineering; Rutgers, the state university; and any other public universities, colleges, county colleges and junior colleges now or hereafter established or authorized by law."