Plain English Breakdown
The official text is truncated at the end of Section (f), so full reporting requirements are unknown.
Restoring Voting Rights for People in Correctional Facilities
This bill restores voting rights to people convicted of felonies or under state supervision within 14 days and requires correctional facilities to provide election materials.
What This Bill Does
- Requires that a person's right to vote be restored no later than 14 days after their conviction for a felony.
- Allows voting eligibility for people in custody, on probation or parole, under electronic monitoring, owing court fines and fees, or otherwise under state supervision.
- Mandates correctional institutions to provide voter registration forms, mail-in ballot applications, vote-by-mail ballots received from local authorities, and election information materials to people in their care.
- Requires local election authorities to work with correctional facilities to help eligible voters cast ballots by mail.
- Creates a Post-Conviction Task Force to improve rules that restore voting rights for convicted individuals.
Who It Names or Affects
- People convicted of felonies or currently under sentence in any state, federal, or juvenile correctional facility.
- Individuals on probation, parole, mandatory supervised release, work release, furlough, electronic monitoring, or owing court fines and fees.
- Correctional institutions including prisons, halfway houses, adult transition centers, and rehabilitation programs.
Terms To Know
- Post-conviction
- The time period after a person has been found guilty or convicted of a crime.
- Correctional institution
- Any place that houses people under state supervision, such as prisons, jails, halfway houses, adult transition centers, or rehabilitation programs.
Limits and Unknowns
- The official text provided is truncated and does not show the full details of the annual compliance report required by December 31.
- While emergency rulemaking is authorized for quick implementation, specific rules have not been listed in this document.