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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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