Assembly Bill A4262

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Promotes voter registration and voting by incarcerated people; repealer

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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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2021-A4262 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §5-106 subs 2, 3, 4 & 5, §5-708 sub 2, amd §§5-104, 5-106, 5-400 & 5-708, El L; amd §75, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8677
2023-2024: A4517

2021-A4262 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to promoting inmate voter registration and voting by incarcerated people; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to distribute a voter information guide and hold voter information and registration clinics for incarcerated people every other year.

2021-A4262 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4262
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. EPSTEIN, KIM -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law and the correction law, in relation  to
   promoting voter registration and voting by incarcerated people; and to
   repeal certain provisions of the election law relating thereto

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 5-104 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. FOR THE PURPOSE OF REGISTERING AND VOTING, AN INCARCERATED PERSON
 IN A STATE OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL BE CONSIDERED A RESIDENT
 OF THE ADDRESS HE OR SHE RESIDED AT PRIOR TO HIS OR HER INCARCERATION.
   §  2.  Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election law
 are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
   § 3. 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 and a new subdivision 1-a is added 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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