Bill Text: NY S05098 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5098 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for notice to individuals in pre-trial detention of their right to vote while being arraigned and while awaiting such trial or examination in a local correction facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05098-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5098

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the  correction  law,  in
          relation  to  notifying  individuals  in  pre-trial detention of their
          right to vote

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 210.15 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. The court shall inform the defendant, if such individual  is  eigh-
     4  teen  years  of  age or over, of his or her right to vote while held for
     5  pre-trial detention, in accordance with paragraph (b) of subdivision one
     6  of section five hundred-a of the correction law, in a local correctional
     7  facility.
     8    § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 511 to read
     9  as follows:
    10    § 511. Notice of voting; pre-trial detention. All  local  correctional
    11  facilities shall post information regarding voting eligibility for indi-
    12  viduals  charged  with  a crime, committed for trial and examination and
    13  detained until such trial and examination occurs, in a  location  easily
    14  accessible by all such individuals.
    15    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09688-01-3