New York 2023-2024 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00206 Latest Draft

Bill / Amended Version Filed 01/04/2023

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 206--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 Subdivision 3 of section 510 of the judiciary law is 2 REPEALED. 3 § 2.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. LBD01196-03-3