Bill Text: NY A09095 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows only citizens to vote at elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 20-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in election law [A09095 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09095-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9095

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 2 of the constitution, in
          relation to allowing only citizens to vote at elections

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), that section 1 of  article
     2  2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    Section  1. [Every citizen] Only citizens shall be entitled to vote at
     4  every election for all officers elected by the people and upon all ques-
     5  tions submitted to the vote of the people provided that such citizen  is
     6  eighteen  years  of  age  or over and shall have been a resident of this
     7  state, and of the county, city, or village for thirty days next  preced-
     8  ing an election.
     9    §  2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
    10  referred to the first regular legislative session  convening  after  the
    11  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
    12  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
    13  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89173-01-2
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