Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; suspends jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for a felony conviction during the period of such incarceration.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1432--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, CRUZ, DARLING, EPSTEIN, JACKSON,
SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, WEPRIN, ZINERMAN, KELLES -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to removing the lifetime
ban on jury duty for convicted felons; and to repeal certain
provisions of such law related thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 510 of the judiciary law is
2 REPEALED.
3 § 2. Section 517 of the judiciary law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision (d) to read as follows:
5 (d) The jury service of any person serving a term of incarceration for
6 a felony conviction shall be postponed while the person is incarcerated
7 for such felony.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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