Bill Text: NY A04009 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing notice of voting rights to persons released from local jails.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-20 - signed chap.473 [A04009 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04009-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4009

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on 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:

     1    Section 1. Section 510 of the correction law, as added by chapter  103
     2  of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  510.  Voting  upon  release.  1.  Prior to the release from a local
     4  correctional facility of any person convicted  of  a  felony  the  chief
     5  administrative  officer shall notify such person verbally and in writing
     6  that his or her voting rights will be restored upon release and  provide
     7  such  person  with  a  form  of application for voter registration and a
     8  declination form, offer such person assistance in filling out the appro-
     9  priate form, and provide such person written information distributed  by
    10  the  board  of  elections on the importance and the mechanics of voting.
    11  Upon release, such person  may  choose  to  either  submit  his  or  her
    12  completed  application  to  the  state  board or county board where such
    13  person resides or have the department transmit it on his or her  behalf.
    14  Where  such  person chooses to have the department transmit the applica-
    15  tion, the chief administrative  officer  shall  transmit  the  completed
    16  application  upon  such  person's  release  to the state board or county
    17  board where such person resides.
    18    2. Upon discharge from a local correctional  facility  of  any  person
    19  eighteen  years  of  age or over, the chief administrative officer shall
    20  notify such person of his or her right to vote and provide  such  person
    21  with  a form of application for voter registration together with written
    22  information distributed by the board of elections on the importance  and
    23  the mechanics of voting.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02488-01-3