Assembly Bill A10217

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing parolees the right to register for and vote at any election

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10217 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7546
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5-106, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A4349, S3599
2013-2014: A3312, S2976

2009-A10217 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2009-A10217 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10217 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10217

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 11, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Election Law

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:

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  2, 3 and 4 of section 5-106 of the election
law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws  of  1978,  are
amended to read as follows:
  2.  No  person who has been convicted of a felony pursuant to the laws
of this state, shall have the right to  register  for  or  vote  at  any
election unless he shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of
citizenship by the governor, or his maximum sentence of imprisonment has
expired[, or he has been discharged from parole]. The governor, however,
may  attach  as a condition to any such pardon a provision that any such
person shall not have the right of suffrage until  it  shall  have  been
separately restored to him.
  3.  No  person who has been convicted in a federal court, of a felony,
or a crime or offense which would constitute a felony under the laws  of
this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any election
unless he shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of citizen-
ship  by  the president of the United States, or his maximum sentence of
imprisonment has expired[, or he has been discharged from parole].
  4. No person who has been convicted in another state for  a  crime  or
offense  which  would  constitute  a felony under the laws of this state
shall have the right to register for or vote at  any  election  in  this
state  unless  he  shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of
citizenship by the governor or other appropriate authority of such other
state, or his maximum sentence has expired[, or he has  been  discharged
from parole].
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
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

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