Bill Text: NY A00267 | 2023-2024 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A00267 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00267-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           267

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          ZINERMAN -- 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     2  law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.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, paragraph (a) as amended by  chapter  3
     5  of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     6    1.  A  voter's  registration, including the registration of a voter in
     7  inactive status, shall be cancelled if, since the time  of  his  or  her
     8  last registration, he or she:
     9    (a) Moved his or her residence outside the state.
    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.
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     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.