Senate Bill S1796

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction 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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2021-S1796 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §510, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8937
2019-2020: S2160
2023-2024: S5965

2021-S1796 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-S1796 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1796 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1796
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  BAILEY, HOYLMAN, PARKER, PERSAUD, SALAZAR -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and 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.
                                                            LBD03309-01-1



              

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