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Assembly Bill A5321

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing notice of voting rights to persons released from local jails

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2019-A5321 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2160
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §510, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7674, S8937
2021-2022: A690, S1796
2023-2024: A4009, S5965

2019-A5321 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing notice of voting rights to persons released from local jails including written information distributed by the board of elections.

2019-A5321 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5321
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing  notice  of
   voting rights to persons released from local jails
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  510
 to read as follows:
   §  510.  NOTICE  OF VOTING RIGHTS. UPON DISCHARGE FROM A LOCAL CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITY OF ANY PERSON EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OVER,  THE  CHIEF
 ADMINISTRATIVE  OFFICER  SHALL NOTIFY SUCH PERSON OF HIS OR HER RIGHT TO
 VOTE AND PROVIDE SUCH PERSON WITH A FORM OF APPLICATION FOR VOTER REGIS-
 TRATION TOGETHER WITH WRITTEN INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED BY  THE  BOARD  OF
 ELECTIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE AND THE MECHANICS OF VOTING.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01141-01-9

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