Bill Text: NY S07546 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7546 I N S E N A T E April 20, 2010 ___________ 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. LBD16208-01-0