Bill Text: NY A08909 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated people.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-14 - opinion referred to judiciary [A08909 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08909-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8909

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to sections 1 and 3 of article 2 of the constitu-
          tion, in relation to authorizing voting by incarcerated people

     1    Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 1 of  article
     2  2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
     3    Section  1.  Every  citizen,  including  any  incarcerated person in a
     4  correctional facility, shall be entitled to vote at every  election  for
     5  all  officers  elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to
     6  the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen  years  of
     7  age  or  over  and  shall have been a resident of this state, and of the
     8  county, city, or village for thirty days next preceding an election.
     9    § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 3 of article  2  of
    10  the constitution be amended to read as follows:
    11    § 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay,
    12  offer  or  promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to
    13  another, to be paid or used, any money or  other  valuable  thing  as  a
    14  compensation  or  reward  for  the  giving  or  withholding a vote at an
    15  election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or with-
    16  holding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirect-
    17  ly interested in any bet or wager  depending  upon  the  result  of  any
    18  election,  shall  vote  at  such  election;  and upon challenge for such
    19  cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that
    20  purpose shall receive his or her vote, shall swear or affirm before such
    21  officers that he or she has not received or offered, does not expect  to
    22  receive,  has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered
    23  or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any  money  or
    24  other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or with-
    25  holding  a vote at such election, and has not made any promise to influ-
    26  ence the giving or withholding of any such  vote,  nor  made  or  become
    27  directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89150-02-9
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     1  result  of  such  election.  [The legislature shall enact laws excluding
     2  from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery  or  of  any
     3  infamous crime.]
     4    §  3. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
     5  referred to the first regular legislative session  convening  after  the
     6  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
     7  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
     8  published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.