Senate Bill S4793

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions; repealer

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

  • 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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2019-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §5-106 subs 2, 3, 4 & 5, §5-708 sub 2, amd §§5-106, 5-400 & 5-708, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2287
2011-2012: S1732
2013-2014: S2631
2015-2016: S1210
2017-2018: S3284
2021-2022: S5210
2023-2024: S6397
2025-2026: S4100

2019-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions by repealing certain provisions in the election law.

2019-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4793
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  qualifications  of
   voters convicted of a felony; and to repeal certain provisions of such
   law relating thereto

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election
 law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, paragraph (a) as amended by  chapter  3
 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A  voter's  registration, including the registration of a voter in
 inactive status, shall be cancelled if, since the time  of  his  OR  HER
 last registration, he OR SHE:
   (a) Moved his or her residence outside the state.
   (b)  [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting pursuant
 to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
   (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
   [(d)] (C) Refused to take a challenge oath.
   [(e)] (D) Has died.
   [(f)] (E) Did not vote in any  election  conducted  by  the  board  of
 elections  during  the period ending with the second general election at
 which candidates for federal office are on the ballot after his  OR  HER
 name  was  placed in inactive status and for whom the board of elections
 did not, during such period, in any other way, receive  any  information
 that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
   [(g)]  (F)  Personally  requested to have his OR HER name removed from
 the list of registered voters.
   [(h)] (G) For any other reason, is no  longer  qualified  to  vote  as
 provided in this chapter.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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