Bill > S672

Introduced Session

This bill requires each correctional facility operating in this State as well as private corrections facilities, often referred to as halfway houses, to provide each inmate with a voter information packet upon the inmate's release. The packet is to include voter registration forms and voting instructions. The bill also requires that a form certifying that the inmate was informed both verbally and in writing of the right to vote be included in the packet. Upon an inmate's release, both an official employed by the correctional facility or an employee of the facility and the inmate are required to sign a copy of the form. The bill requires each facility to maintain a copy of the form on record. A separate copy of the signed form is to be submitted to the inmate upon release from incarceration. Currently, an individual who is convicted of a crime of the fourth through first degree is prohibited from voting in any primary, municipal, special or general election while serving a sentence for that crime and while on parole or probation as a result of that conviction.

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Ronald Rice (D)*, 

Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 05/18/2017)