Assembly Bill A2116

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A2116 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2287
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §5-106 subs 2, 3, 4 & 5, §5-708 sub 2, amd §5-400, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A4647, S1732
2013-2014: S2631
2015-2016: S1210
2017-2018: S3284
2019-2020: S4793
2021-2022: S5210
2023-2024: S6397

2009-A2116 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2009-A2116 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2116

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK
  -- 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:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election
law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  1. A voter's registration, including the registration of  a  voter  in
inactive  status,  shall  be  cancelled if, since the time of his OR HER
last registration, he OR SHE:
  (a) Moved his OR HER residence outside the city or county in which  he
OR SHE is registered.
  (b)  [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting pursuant
to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
  (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
  [(d)] (C) Refused to take a challenge oath.
  [(e)] (D) Has died.
  [(f)] (E) Did not vote in any  election  conducted  by  the  board  of
elections  during  the period ending with the second general election at
which candidates for federal office are on the ballot after his  OR  HER
name  was  placed in inactive status and for whom the board of elections
did not, during such period, in any other way, receive  any  information
that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
  [(g)]  (F)  Personally  requested to have his OR HER name removed from
the list of registered voters.
  [(h)] (G) For any other reason, is no  longer  qualified  to  vote  as
provided in this chapter.
  S  3.  Subdivision  2 of section 5-708 of the election law is REPEALED
and subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are renumbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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