Bill Text: NY A03285 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions by repealing certain provisions in the election law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A03285 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03285-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3285
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to qualifications of
          voters convicted of a felony; and repealing certain provisions of such
          law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election
     2  law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
     3    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
     4  chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     5    1.  A  voter's  registration, including the registration of a voter in
     6  inactive status, shall be cancelled if, since the time  of  his  or  her
     7  last registration, he or she:
     8    (a)  Moved his or her residence outside the city or county in which he
     9  or she is registered.
    10    (b) [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting  pursuant
    11  to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
    12    (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
    13    [(d)] (c) Refused to take a challenge oath.
    14    [(e)] (d) Has died.
    15    [(f)]  (e)  Did  not  vote  in  any election conducted by the board of
    16  elections during the period ending with the second general  election  at
    17  which  candidates  for federal office are on the ballot after his or her
    18  name was placed in inactive status and for whom the board  of  elections
    19  did  not,  during such period, in any other way, receive any information
    20  that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
    21    [(g)] (f) Personally requested to have his or her  name  removed  from
    22  the list of registered voters.
    23    [(h)]  (g)  For  any  other  reason, is no longer qualified to vote as
    24  provided in this chapter.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05907-01-9
        A. 3285                             2
     1    § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 5-708 of the election  law  is  REPEALED
     2  and  subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, subdivision 3 as renumbered by chap-
     3  ter 659 of the laws of 1994, are renumbered subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5  and
     4  6.
     5    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.