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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  SALAZAR,  PARKER,  SEPULVEDA,  BRISPORT,  CLEARE,
   FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MYRIE, RAMOS,  RIVERA  --
   read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Judiciary

             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to sections 1 and 3 of article 2 of the constitu-
   tion, in relation to authorizing voting by incarcerated people
 
   Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 1 of  arti-
 cle 2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   Section  1.  Every  citizen,  INCLUDING  ANY  INCARCERATED PERSON IN A
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, shall be entitled to vote at every  election  for
 all  officers  elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to
 the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen  years  of
 age  or  over  and  shall have been a resident of this state, and of the
 county, city, or village for thirty days next preceding an election.
   § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 3 of article 2 of
 the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   § 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay,
 offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to  contribute  to
 another,  to  be  paid  or  used, any money or other valuable thing as a
 compensation or reward for the  giving  or  withholding  a  vote  at  an
 election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or with-
 holding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirect-
 ly  interested  in  any  bet  or  wager depending upon the result of any
 election, shall vote at such  election;  and  upon  challenge  for  such
 cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that
 purpose  shall  receive  [his or her] SUCH PERSON'S vote, shall swear or
 affirm before such officers  that  [he  or  she]  SUCH  PERSON  has  not
 received  or  offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered
 or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised  to  contribute  to
 another,  to  be  paid  or  used, any money or other valuable thing as a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 compensation or reward for the giving or  withholding  a  vote  at  such
 election,  and has not made any promise to influence the giving or with-
 holding of any such vote, nor made  or  become  directly  or  indirectly
 interested  in  any  bet  or  wager  depending  upon  the result of such
 election. [The legislature shall enact laws excluding from the right  of
 suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime.]
   §  3.  Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment
 be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
 next succeeding general election of members of  the  assembly,  and,  in
 conformity  with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution, be
 published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.