STATE OF NEW YORK
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160
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(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
1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 1 of arti-
2 cle 2 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
3 Section 1. Every citizen, including any incarcerated person in a
4 correctional facility, shall be entitled to vote at every election for
5 all officers elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to
6 the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years of
7 age or over and shall have been a resident of this state, and of the
8 county, city, or village for thirty days next preceding an election.
9 § 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 3 of article 2 of
10 the constitution be amended to read as follows:
11 § 3. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay,
12 offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to
13 another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a
14 compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an
15 election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving or with-
16 holding any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indirect-
17 ly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any
18 election, shall vote at such election; and upon challenge for such
19 cause, the person so challenged, before the officers authorized for that
20 purpose shall receive [his or her] such person's vote, shall swear or
21 affirm before such officers that [he or she] such person has not
22 received or offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered
23 or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to
24 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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1 compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such
2 election, and has not made any promise to influence the giving or with-
3 holding of any such vote, nor made or become directly or indirectly
4 interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of such
5 election. [The legislature shall enact laws excluding from the right of
6 suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime.]
7 § 3. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment
8 be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
9 next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in
10 conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
11 published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.
