Bill Text: NY S03284 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3284 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions by repealing certain provisions in the election law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03284 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03284-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3284
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
        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     2  law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.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.
                                                                   LBD06172-01-7

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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.