Bill Text: NY S05965 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4009A [S05965 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5965

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          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.
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