assembly Bill A9239

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enables persons charged with or convicted of a crime to register to vote and to vote; repeals certain provisions relating to voter challenges at polling places and to notice of voter rights

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Feb 09, 2022 referred to election law

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A9239 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §8-504 sub 5, add §8-409, amd §§5-106, 5-210, 5-400, 5-708, 7-123, 7-124, 8-400 & 15-120, El L; amd §75, Cor L; rpld §1057-a sub 10, amd §1057-a, NYC Chart

A9239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enables persons charged with or convicted of a crime to register to vote and to vote; repeals certain provisions relating to voter challenges at polling places and to notice of voter rights.

A9239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9239
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, MAMDANI, ZINERMAN, SIMON, JACKSON, GOTT-
   FRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT to amend the election law and the correction law, in relation to
   enabling persons charged with or convicted of a crime to  register  to
   vote  and  to vote; to amend the New York city charter, in relation to
   making conforming changes; to repeal subdivision 5 of section 8-504 of
   the election law relating to voter challenges at polling  places;  and
   to repeal subdivisions 10 of section 1057-a of the New York city char-
   ter relating to notice of voter rights
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  8-409
 to read as follows:
   § 8-409. VOTING BY INCARCERATED PERSONS. 1. ANY PERSON INCARCERATED IN
 A STATE OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE
 CORRECTION LAW, SHALL BE ENTITLED TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT AS PROVIDED
 IN SECTION SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE CORRECTION LAW.
   2.  ALL BALLOTS CAST PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND SECTION SEVENTY-FIVE
 OF THE CORRECTION LAW SHALL BE CAST IN THE MANNER PROVIDED BY THIS CHAP-
 TER FOR THE CASTING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
   3.  ALL  BALLOTS  CAST  PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION AND
 SECTION SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE CORRECTION LAW WHICH ARE    RECEIVED  BEFORE
 THE CLOSE OF THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY BY THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS CHARGED
 WITH  THE   DUTY   OF   CASTING  AND  CANVASSING  SUCH BALLOTS,  MAY  BE
 DELIVERED TO THE INSPECTORS OF ELECTION IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THIS
 CHAPTER OR RETAINED AT THE  BOARD OF ELECTIONS AND  CAST  AND  CANVASSED
 PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 9-209 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  2.  Section  75 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 103 of
 the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 75. [Notice of voting] VOTING rights. [Prior to the release from  a]
 1.  UPON THE ADMISSION OF AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL TO A STATE OR LOCAL
 correctional facility [of any person], the department shall notify  such
 [person verbally and in writing, that] INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL OF his or
 her voting rights [will be restored upon release and provide such person

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.