STATE OF NEW YORK
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4349
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. CAMARA, CASTRO, GIBSON -- 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4 of section 5-106 of the election
2 law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1978, are
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. No person who has been convicted of a felony pursuant to the laws
5 of this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any
6 election unless he or she shall have been pardoned or restored to the
7 rights of citizenship by the governor, or his or her maximum sentence of
8 imprisonment has expired[, or he has been discharged from parole]. The
9 governor, however, may attach as a condition to any such pardon a
10 provision that any such person shall not have the right of suffrage
11 until it shall have been separately restored to him or her.
12 3. No person who has been convicted in a federal court, of a felony,
13 or a crime or offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of
14 this state, shall have the right to register for or vote at any election
15 unless he or she shall have been pardoned or restored to the rights of
16 citizenship by the president of the United States, or his or her maximum
17 sentence of imprisonment has expired[, or he has been discharged from
18 parole].
19 4. No person who has been convicted in another state for a crime or
20 offense which would constitute a felony under the laws of this state
21 shall have the right to register for or vote at any election in this
22 state unless he or she shall have been pardoned or restored to the
23 rights of citizenship by the governor or other appropriate authority of
24 such other state, or his or her maximum sentence has expired[, or he has
25 been discharged from parole].
26 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
27 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04161-01-1
