Bill Text: NY S00206 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; provides that if convicted of a felony, such person has completed all sentencing requirements to such conviction, including any required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - returned to senate [S00206 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00206-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 206--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BRESLIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, COMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MANNION, MAY, MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, RYAN, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 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, as 2 amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. [Not have been] If convicted of a felony, have completed all 5 sentencing requirements related to such conviction, including any 6 required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision. 7 For the purposes of this subdivision, "community supervision" shall 8 have the same meaning as such term is defined in subdivision thirty-one 9 of section two of the correction law. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01196-09-4