New York S 7511: Provides for notice to individuals in pre-trial detention of their right to vote

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S07511 Summary:

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Amd §210.15, CP L; add §511, Cor L

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Provides for notice to individuals in pre-trial detention of their right to vote while being arraigned and while awaiting such trial or examination in a local correction facility.

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04/21/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7511

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the correction law, in
 relation to notifying individuals in pre-trial detention of their
 right to vote

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

 1 Section 1. Section 210.15 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
 3 4. The court shall inform the defendant, if such individual is eigh-
 4 teen years of age or over, of their right to vote while held for pre-
 5 trial detention, in accordance with paragraph (b) of subdivision one of
 6 section five hundred-a of the correction law, in a local correctional
 7 facility.
 8 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 511 to read
 9 as follows:
 10 § 511. Notice of voting; pre-trial detention. All local correctional
 11 facilities shall post information regarding voting eligibility for indi-
 12 viduals charged with a crime, committed for trial and examination and
 13 detained until such trial and examination occurs, in a location easily
 14 accessible by all such individuals.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 16 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11716-01-5

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