Bill Text: NY S03342 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to voting and registration for voting by convicted felons; provides such convicted felons may vote if pardoned, such persons maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired, or such person is serving a term of parole, presumptive release, conditional release or post-release supervision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03342 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S03342-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3342
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 1, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law and the executive law, in relation to
voting by convicted felons
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 5-106 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
3 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]: (I) SUCH PERSON shall have been pardoned or
7 restored to the rights of citizenship by the governor, or [his] (II)
8 SUCH PERSON'S maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired, or [he has
9 been discharged from parole. The governor, however, may attach as a
10 condition to any such pardon a provision that any such person shall not
11 have the right of suffrage until it shall have been separately restored
12 to him] (III) SUCH PERSON IS SERVING A TERM OF PAROLE, PRESUMPTIVE
13 RELEASE, CONDITIONAL RELEASE OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION.
14 S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 5-106 of the election law is amended to
15 read as follows:
16 3. No person who has been convicted in a federal court, of a felony,
17 or a crime or offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of
18 this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any election
19 unless [he]: (I) SUCH PERSON shall have been pardoned or restored to the
20 rights of citizenship by the president of the United States, or [his]
21 (II) SUCH PERSON'S maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired, or [he
22 has been discharged from parole] (III) SUCH PERSON IS SERVING A TERM OF
23 PAROLE, PRESUMPTIVE RELEASE, CONDITIONAL RELEASE OR POST-RELEASE SUPER-
24 VISION.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 S 3. Subdivision 4 of section 5-106 of the election law is amended to
2 read as follows:
3 4. No person who has been convicted in another state for a crime or
4 offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of this state
5 shall have the right to register for or vote at any election in this
6 state unless [he]: (I) SUCH PERSON shall have been pardoned or restored
7 to the rights of citizenship by the governor or other appropriate
8 authority of such other state, or [his] (II) SUCH PERSON'S maximum
9 sentence has expired, or [he has been discharged from parole] (III) SUCH
10 PERSON IS SERVING A TERM OF PAROLE, PRESUMPTIVE RELEASE, CONDITIONAL
11 RELEASE OR POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION.
12 S 4. Section 259-c of the executive law is amended by adding a new
13 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
14 7. HAVE THE DUTY TO PROVIDE VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS TO EVERY PERSON
15 ON PAROLE, PRESUMPTIVE RELEASE, CONDITIONAL RELEASE OR POST-RELEASE
16 SUPERVISION AT THE TIME SUCH PERSON IS RELEASED TO SUPERVISION OR AS
17 SOON THEREAFTER AS PRACTICABLE;
18 S 5. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
19 section four of this act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth
20 day after it shall have become a law.
