A05321 Summary:

BILL NOA05321
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02160
 
SPONSORRozic
 
COSPNSRWeprin, Colton, Walker, Blake, Fernandez, De La Rosa, Cruz, Mosley, Rodriguez
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §510, Cor L
 
Relates to providing notice of voting rights to persons released from local jails including written information distributed by the board of elections.
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A05321 Actions:

BILL NOA05321
 
02/08/2019referred to correction
03/26/2019reported
03/28/2019advanced to third reading cal.168
01/08/2020ordered to third reading cal.202
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A05321 Committee Votes:

CORRECTION Chair:Weprin DATE:03/26/2019AYE/NAY:10/3 Action: Favorable
WeprinAyeGiglioNay
OrtizAyeFinchNay
ColtonAyePalmesanoNay
RozicAye
DavilaAye
MosleyAye
BlakeAye
WalkerAye
De La RosaAye
QuartAye

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A05321 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A05321 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5321
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 8, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
 
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing  notice  of
          voting rights to persons released from local jails
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  510
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  510.  Notice  of voting rights. Upon discharge from a local correc-
     4  tional facility of any person eighteen years of age or over,  the  chief
     5  administrative  officer  shall notify such person of his or her right to
     6  vote and provide such person with a form of application for voter regis-
     7  tration together with written information distributed by  the  board  of
     8  elections on the importance and the mechanics of voting.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01141-01-9
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