Bill Text: NY A01432 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1432

Bill Title: Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; suspends jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for a felony conviction during the period of such incarceration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 55-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.43 [A01432 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01432-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1432--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  AUBRY,  CRUZ,  DARLING,  EPSTEIN,  JACKSON,
          SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, WEPRIN, ZINERMAN, KELLES -- read once  and  referred
          to  the  Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to removing the  lifetime
          ban  on  jury  duty  for  convicted  felons;  and  to  repeal  certain
          provisions of such law related thereto

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  510  of the judiciary law is
     2  REPEALED.
     3    § 2. Section 517 of the judiciary law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  subdivision (d) to read as follows:
     5    (d) The jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for
     6  a  felony conviction shall be postponed while the person is incarcerated
     7  for such felony.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01196-04-3