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Jan 24, 2013 |
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Assembly Bill A3312
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CAMARA
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Walter T. Mosley
multi-Sponsors
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
N. Nick Perry
2013-A3312 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A3312 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3312 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 24, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAMARA, CASTRO, GIBSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing parolees the right to register for and vote at any election THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 of section 5-106 of the election law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, are amended to read as follows: 2. No person who has been convicted of a felony pursuant to the laws of this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any election unless he OR SHE shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of citizenship by the governor, or his OR HER maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired[, or he has been discharged from parole]. The governor, however, may attach as a condition to any such pardon a provision that any such person shall not have the right of suffrage until it shall have been separately restored to him OR HER. 3. No person who has been convicted in a federal court, of a felony, or a crime or offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any election unless he OR SHE shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of citizenship by the president of the United States, or his OR HER maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired[, or he has been discharged from parole]. 4. No person who has been convicted in another state for a crime or offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of this state shall have the right to register for or vote at any election in this state unless he OR SHE shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of citizenship by the governor or other appropriate authority of EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05546-01-3
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