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Senate Bill S1566

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole and in civil confinement from voting in certain elections

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2025-S1566 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §18-a, Exec L; amd §5-106, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S9142
2019-2020: S1837
2021-2022: S1540
2023-2024: S1390

2025-S1566 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole and in civil confinement from voting in certain elections.

2025-S1566 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1566 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1566
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  TEDISCO,  HELMING, ORTT -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the election law, in  relation  to
   prohibiting  sex  offenders who are on parole and in civil confinement
   from voting in certain elections

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 18-a
 to read as follows:
   § 18-A. RESTRICTION ON VOTING RIGHTS. A PERSON WHO HAS BEEN  CONVICTED
 OF  AN  OFFENSE DESCRIBED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW
 WHO HAS BEEN: (I) DISCHARGED FROM IMPRISONMENT, BY VIRTUE OF ANY PAROLE,
 CONDITIONAL PARDON OR CONDITIONAL COMMUTATION OF SUCH PERSON'S SENTENCE;
 AND (II) IS COMMITTED TO CIVIL IMPRISONMENT IN A HOSPITAL OR INSTITUTION
 SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM VOTING IN ANY ELECTION HELD DURING THE TIME  OF
 THE PERSON'S CONFINEMENT TO SUCH HOSPITAL OR INSTITUTION.
   §  2.  Section  5-106  of  the election law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
   4-A. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF  SUBDIVISIONS  TWO,  THREE  AND
 FOUR  OF  THIS  SECTION,  A  PERSON WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF AN OFFENSE
 DESCRIBED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW WHO  HAS  BEEN:
 (I)  DISCHARGED  FROM IMPRISONMENT, BY VIRTUE OF ANY PAROLE, CONDITIONAL
 PARDON OR CONDITIONAL COMMUTATION OF SUCH PERSON'S SENTENCE; AND (II) IS
 COMMITTED TO CIVIL IMPRISONMENT IN A HOSPITAL OR  INSTITUTION  SHALL  BE
 PROHIBITED  FROM  VOTING  IN  ANY  ELECTION  HELD DURING THE TIME OF THE
 PERSON'S CONFINEMENT TO SUCH HOSPITAL OR INSTITUTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04316-01-5

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