Bill Text: NY A04349 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to allowing parolees the right to register for and vote at any election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to election law [A04349 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04349-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4349
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. CAMARA, CASTRO, GIBSON -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing  parolees  the
         right to register for and vote at any election
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 of section 5-106  of  the  election
    2  law,  subdivision  2  as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, are
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    2. No person who has been convicted of a felony pursuant to  the  laws
    5  of  this  state,  shall  have  the  right to register for or vote at any
    6  election unless he OR SHE shall have been pardoned or  restored  to  the
    7  rights of citizenship by the governor, or his OR HER maximum sentence of
    8  imprisonment  has  expired[, or he has been discharged from parole]. The
    9  governor, however, may attach as  a  condition  to  any  such  pardon  a
   10  provision  that  any  such  person  shall not have the right of suffrage
   11  until it shall have been separately restored to him OR HER.
   12    3. No person who has been convicted in a federal court, of  a  felony,
   13  or  a crime or offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of
   14  this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any election
   15  unless he OR SHE shall have been pardoned or restored to the  rights  of
   16  citizenship by the president of the United States, or his OR HER maximum
   17  sentence  of  imprisonment  has expired[, or he has been discharged from
   18  parole].
   19    4. No person who has been convicted in another state for  a  crime  or
   20  offense  which  would  constitute  a felony under the laws of this state
   21  shall have the right to register for or vote at  any  election  in  this
   22  state  unless  he  OR  SHE  shall  have been pardoned or restored to the
   23  rights of citizenship by the governor or other appropriate authority  of
   24  such other state, or his OR HER maximum sentence has expired[, or he has
   25  been discharged from parole].
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   27  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04161-01-1
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