Assembly Bill A5842

2017-2018 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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2017-A5842 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3284
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §5-106 subs 2, 3, 4 & 5, §5-708 sub 2, amd §§5-106, 5-400 & 5-708, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2287
2011-2012: S1732
2013-2014: S2631
2015-2016: A6320, S1210
2019-2020: A3285, S4793
2021-2022: A4322, S5210
2023-2024: A267, S6397

2017-A5842 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A5842 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5842
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- 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 law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
 section  20 of chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, paragraph (a) as amended
 by section 21 of 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.

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

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