New York S 5811: Establishes a certificate of restoration; repealer

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S05811 Summary:

BILL NOS05811 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04442

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SPONSORSEPULVEDA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§700 - 705, 751 & 753, rpld §§703-a & 703-b, Cor L; amd §175, Exec L; amd §283, Tax L; amd §§102, 110 &
126, ABC L; amd §§96-z-3 & 129, Ag & Mkts L; amd §§2897, 3454, 3510 & 2806, Pub Health L; amd §§84-a, 175-b &
213-b, Town L; amd §§2018-a & 2018-b, Ed L; amd §§69-o & 81, Gen Bus L; amd §265.20, Pen L; amd §79-a, Civ
Rts L; amd §20-438, NYC Ad Cd; amd §§509-c, 509-cc, 510, 510-a, 530, 1193, 1194 & 1196, V & T L

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Establishes a certificate of restoration to replace the terms "certificate of good conduct" and "certificate of relief from disabilities"; repeals certain provisions relating to certificates of good conduct.

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BILL NOS05811 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5811

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, the executive law, the tax law, the
 alcoholic beverage control law, the agriculture and markets law, the
 public health law, the town law, the education law, the general busi-
 ness law, the penal law, the civil rights law, the administrative code
 of the city of New York and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation
 to establishing a certificate of restoration to replace the certif-
 icate of good conduct and the certificate of relief from disabilities;
 and to repeal certain provisions of the correction law relating to
 certificates of good conduct

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 700 of the
 2 correction law, as amended by chapter 342 of the laws of 1972, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) "Eligible offender" shall mean a person who has been convicted of
 5 a crime or of an offense[, but who has not been convicted more than once
 6 of a felony].
 7 § 2. Section 701 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 342 of
 8 the laws of 1972, subdivision 2 as amended by section 3 of subpart J of
 9 part II of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 10 follows:
 11 § 701. Certificate of [relief from disabilities] restoration. 1. A
 12 certificate of [relief from disabilities] restoration may be granted as
 13 provided in this article to relieve an eligible offender of any forfei-
 14 ture or disability, or to remove any bar to [his] such eligible
 15 offender's employment, automatically imposed by law by reason of [his]
 16 their conviction of the crime or of the offense specified therein. Such
 17 certificate may be limited to one or more enumerated forfeitures, disa-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08038-01-5

 S. 5811 2

 1 bilities or bars, or may relieve the eligible offender of all forfei-
 2 tures, disabilities and bars. [Provided, however, that no such certif-
 3 icate shall apply, or be construed so as to apply, to the right of such
 4 person to retain or to be eligible for public office.]
 5 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except subdivision five
 6 of section twenty-eight hundred six of the public health law or para-
 7 graph (b) of subdivision two of section eleven hundred ninety-three of
 8 the vehicle and traffic law, a conviction of a crime or of an offense
 9 specified in a certificate of [relief from disabilities] restoration
 10 shall not cause automatic forfeiture of any license, other than a
 11 license issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law to a person
 12 convicted of a class A-I felony or a violent felony offense, as defined
 13 in subdivision one of secti