Bill Text: NY S07546 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing parolees the right to register for and vote at any election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07546 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S07546-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7546
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 20, 2010
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
       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 shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of
    7  citizenship by the governor, or his maximum sentence of imprisonment has
    8  expired[, or he has been discharged from parole]. The governor, however,
    9  may attach as a condition to any such pardon a provision that  any  such
   10  person  shall  not  have  the right of suffrage until it shall have been
   11  separately restored to him.
   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 shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of citizen-
   16  ship by the president of the United States, or his maximum  sentence  of
   17  imprisonment has expired[, or he has been discharged from parole].
   18    4.  No  person  who has been convicted in another state for a crime or
   19  offense which would constitute a felony under the  laws  of  this  state
   20  shall  have  the  right  to register for or vote at any election in this
   21  state unless he shall have been pardoned or restored to  the  rights  of
   22  citizenship by the governor or other appropriate authority of such other
   23  state,  or  his maximum sentence has expired[, or he has been discharged
   24  from parole].
   25    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   26  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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