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A7674Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS8937

Inform Jail Releases of Voting

Official title

“Relates to providing notice of voting rights to persons released from local jails”

Sponsor Nily RozicAD-25+1 co-sponsorAffects Public Safety & Consumer Affairs
Status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Impact
3/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 3 of 7

Floor calendar · May 31

What's happening

This bill requires local jails to notify released individuals of their voting rights and provide voter registration materials.

Why it matters

  1. Promotes civic engagement and reintegration. By informing individuals released from local jails about their voting rights and providing registration materials, the bill helps them rejoin civic life, which is linked to lower recidivism and stronger community ties.

  2. Addresses misinformation and barriers. Many people are unaware of their voting eligibility after incarceration; this bill tackles confusion and helps ensure that eligible citizens are not wrongly excluded from participating in elections.

  3. Increases voter participation among underrepresented groups. People released from local jails are often from marginalized communities with historically lower voter turnout; facilitating their registration could help make the electorate more representative.

  4. Standardizes practices across local facilities. The bill creates a uniform requirement for all local jails, reducing inconsistencies in how released individuals are informed about their voting rights across the state.

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Inform Jail Releases of Voting

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Nily Rozic

Assembly Member · Assembly District 25

Chair, Consumer Affairs and Protection

1 Co-sponsor

History

  1. Advanced to third reading cal.996
  2. Reported
  3. Referred to correction
  4. Reported referred to rules
  5. Referred to correction

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S8937Senate

Inform Jail Releases of Voting

In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Jamaal Bailey

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

7674

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

May 8, 2017

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 Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 510 to read as follows:

§ 510. Notice of voting rights. Upon discharge from a local correctional facility of any person eighteen years of age or over, the chief administrative officer shall notify such person of his or her right to vote and provide such person with a form of application for voter registration together with written information distributed by the board of elections on the importance and the mechanics of voting.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD11522-01-7

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