Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; provides that if convicted of a felony, such person has completed all sentencing requirements to such conviction, including any required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1432--C
Cal. No. 43
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, WALKER, MAMDANI, BURGOS,
GALLAGHER, TAYLOR, HEVESI, RAGA, REYES, COOK, GIBBS, SEPTIMO, FORREST,
L. ROSENTHAL, GLICK, WALLACE, SIMONE, CUNNINGHAM, LUCAS, MEEKS, SHRES-
THA, ANDERSON, DAVILA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DE LOS SANTOS, SHIMSKY,
SOLAGES, BURDICK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, RIVERA, LEVENBERG, JEAN-PIERRE,
ZACCARO, LEE, BRONSON, CLARK, CARROLL, BENEDETTO, O'DONNELL, HYNDMAN,
STIRPE, DINOWITZ, DICKENS, BORES, TAPIA, MITAYNES -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place on the order of third reading -- again amended on
third reading, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to removing the lifetime
ban on jury duty for convicted felons
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, as
2 amended by chapter 86 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. [Not have been] If convicted of a felony, have completed all
5 sentencing requirements related to such conviction, including any
6 required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.
7 For the purposes of this subdivision, "community supervision" shall
8 have the same meaning as such term is defined in subdivision thirty-one
9 of section two of the correction law.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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