Bill Text: NY A04367 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state board of parole to notify felons of their right to vote within thirty days immediately prior to release; provides such persons with an application form for registration and enrollment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-03 - referred to election law [A04367 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A04367-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4367
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HOOPER,
         MENG, SWEENEY, TOWNS, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
         tee on Election Law
       AN  ACT  to amend the executive law and the election law, in relation to
         notifying persons convicted of a felony of their right to  vote  after
         the  completion  of  such person's term of imprisonment, and requiring
         that voter registration forms be sent to them accordingly
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 837-a of the executive law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10. WITHIN THIRTY DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF ANY  PERSON
    4  FROM  A  CORRECTIONAL  INSTITUTION  OR  ANY PERSON CONVICTED OF A FELONY
    5  WHOSE RIGHT TO REGISTER AND VOTE SHALL BE REINSTATED PURSUANT TO SECTION
    6  5-106 OF THE ELECTION LAW, NOTIFY SUCH A PERSON OF  HIS  OR  HER  RIGHTS
    7  UNDER  SUCH SECTION AND PROVIDE SUCH PERSON WITH AN APPLICATION FORM FOR
    8  REGISTRATION AND  ENROLLMENT  AS  REQUIRED  BY  SUBDIVISION  SIXTEEN  OF
    9  SECTION 5-210 OF THE ELECTION LAW.
   10    S  2.  Section  5-210  of  the election law is amended by adding a new
   11  subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   12    16. THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL ANNUALLY OR MORE FREQUENTLY  AS
   13  NECESSARY, PROVIDE THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE WITH A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF
   14  VOTER REGISTRATION AND ENROLLMENT FORMS AS WILL ENABLE IT TO SEND A COPY
   15  THEREOF TO ANY PERSON WHO IS REQUIRED TO BE NOTIFIED OF HIS OR HER RIGHT
   16  TO  VOTE  AS  PROVIDED  FOR  IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED
   17  THIRTY-SEVEN-A OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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