New York 2025 Session Status: Introduced

A2121 — Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals

Last action — Assembly Floor Calendar

  1. 1
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Assembly
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been introduced in the Assembly. Introduced January 15, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.

Next likely step: a committee referral and hearing.

Odds of enactment

Low chance

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Prognosis

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In plain language

This bill expands voting rights for incarcerated individuals.

The legislation allows polling places at correctional facilities and ensures access to voter registration and absentee ballots for those detained. It mandates that voting information is included in inmate handbooks.

What this means for you
  • Workers: This bill may affect workers involved in the administration of elections within correctional facilities.

Summary

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.443

  2. RULES REPORT CAL.443

  3. REPORTED

  4. REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  5. REFERENCE CHANGED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  6. PRINT NUMBER 2121A

  7. AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ELECTION LAW

  8. REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW

  9. REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 218 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (218)

218 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Subjects

civil-rights elections
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Frequently asked questions

What does A2121 do?
Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.
Who sponsors A2121?
A2121 is sponsored by Latrice Walker.
What is the current status of A2121?
This bill has been introduced in the Assembly. Introduced January 15, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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