Bill Text: NY S02240 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; suspends jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for a felony conviction during the period of such incarceration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S02240 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S02240-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2240 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, ADDABBO, BAILEY, BRISPORT, BROUK, COMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, S. RYAN, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to removing the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; and to repeal certain provisions of such law related thereto 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 Subdivision 3 of section 510 of the judiciary law is 2 REPEALED. 3 § 2. Section 517 of the judiciary law is amended by adding a new 4 subdivision (d) to read as follows: 5 (d) The jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for 6 a felony conviction shall be postponed while the person is incarcerated 7 for such felony. 8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05843-02-5
