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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  SALAZAR,  PARKER,  SEPULVEDA, BRISPORT, GONZALEZ,
   HOYLMAN, JACKSON, MYRIE, RAMOS,  RIVERA  --  read  twice  and  ordered
   printed,  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judici-
   ary
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

 proposing an amendment to sections 1 and 3 of article 2 of the constitu-
   tion, in relation to authorizing voting by incarcerated people
 
   Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 1 of  arti-
 cle 2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   Section  1.  Every  citizen,  INCLUDING  ANY  INCARCERATED PERSON IN A
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, shall be entitled to vote at every  election  for
 all  officers  elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to
 the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen  years  of
 age  or  over  and  shall have been a resident of this state, and of the
 county, city, or village for thirty days next preceding an election.
   § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 3 of article 2 of
 the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   § 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay,
 offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to  contribute  to
 another,  to  be  paid  or  used, any money or other valuable thing as a
 compensation or reward for the  giving  or  withholding  a  vote  at  an
 election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or with-
 holding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirect-
 ly  interested  in  any  bet  or  wager depending upon the result of any
 election, shall vote at such  election;  and  upon  challenge  for  such
 cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that
 purpose shall receive his or her vote, shall swear or affirm before such
 officers  that he or she has not received or offered, does not expect to
 receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed,  offered
 or  promised  to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or
 other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or with-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 holding a vote at such election, and has not made any promise to  influ-
 ence  the  giving  or  withholding  of any such vote, nor made or become
 directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the
 result  of  such  election.  [The legislature shall enact laws excluding
 from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery  or  of  any
 infamous crime.]
   §  3.  Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment
 be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
 next succeeding general election of members of  the  assembly,  and,  in
 conformity  with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution, be
 published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.