Bill Text: NY S00206 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; provides that if convicted of a felony, such person has completed all sentencing requirements to such conviction, including any required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - returned to senate [S00206 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00206-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         206--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. CLEARE, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BRESLIN, BRISPORT, BROUK,
          COMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS,  GONZALEZ,  GOUNARDES,  HARCKHAM,
          HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MANNION, MAY,
          MYRIE,  PARKER,  RAMOS,  RIVERA,  RYAN,  SALAZAR,  SANDERS, SEPULVEDA,
          SERRANO, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
          be committed to the Committee on Judiciary  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary  in  accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to removing the  lifetime
          ban on jury duty for convicted felons

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section  510  of  the  judiciary  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  86  of  the  laws  of  1995, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. [Not have been] If  convicted  of  a  felony,  have  completed  all
     5  sentencing  requirements  related  to  such  conviction,  including  any
     6  required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.
     7    For the purposes of this subdivision,  "community  supervision"  shall
     8  have  the same meaning as such term is defined in subdivision thirty-one
     9  of section two of the correction law.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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