Bill Text: NY A05842 | 2017-2018 | 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 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to election law [A05842 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05842-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5842
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2017
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        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     2  law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.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  section  20 of chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, paragraph (a) as amended
     5  by section 21 of chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read  as
     6  follows:
     7    1.  A  voter's  registration, including the registration of a voter in
     8  inactive status, shall be cancelled if, since the time  of  his  or  her
     9  last registration, he or she:
    10    (a)  Moved his or her residence outside the city or county in which he
    11  or she is registered.
    12    (b) [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting  pursuant
    13  to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
    14    (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
    15    [(d)] (c) Refused to take a challenge oath.
    16    [(e)] (d) Has died.
    17    [(f)]  (e)  Did  not  vote  in  any election conducted by the board of
    18  elections during the period ending with the second general  election  at
    19  which  candidates  for federal office are on the ballot after his or her
    20  name was placed in inactive status and for whom the board  of  elections
    21  did  not,  during such period, in any other way, receive any information
    22  that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
    23    [(g)] (f) Personally requested to have his or her  name  removed  from
    24  the list of registered voters.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    [(h)]  (g)  For  any  other  reason, is no longer qualified to vote as
     2  provided in this chapter.
     3    §  3.  Subdivision  2 of section 5-708 of the election law is REPEALED
     4  and subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, subdivision 3 as renumbered by  chap-
     5  ter  659 of the laws of 1994, are renumbered subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5 and
     6  6.
     7    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.