HF 227

1st Engrossment - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to elections; restoring eligibility to vote 
  1.3             to certain convicted felons who are not incarcerated; 
  1.4             requiring notice; amending Minnesota Statutes 2003 
  1.5             Supplement, section 201.014, subdivision 2; proposing 
  1.6             coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 
  1.7             243; 609. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
  1.10  201.014, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.11     Subd. 2.  [NOT ELIGIBLE.] (a) The following individuals are 
  1.12  not eligible to vote.  Any individual:  
  1.13     (a) (1) an individual who is convicted of treason or any 
  1.14  felony whose civil rights have not been restored; 
  1.15     (b) (2) an individual who is under a guardianship of the 
  1.16  person in which the court order provides that the ward does not 
  1.17  retain the right to vote; or and 
  1.18     (c) (3) an individual who is found by a court of law to be 
  1.19  legally incompetent.  
  1.20     (b) For purposes of this subdivision, an individual 
  1.21  convicted of a felony is restored to civil rights: 
  1.22     (1) after completion of any period of incarceration; or 
  1.23     (2) during or after any time the individual is placed on 
  1.24  probation, parole, conditional release, or supervised release. 
  1.25     Sec. 2.  [243.205] [NOTICE OF RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
  1.26  AND ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE.] 
  2.1      (a) The commissioner of corrections must give an offender 
  2.2   notice in writing that the person is restored to civil rights 
  2.3   for purposes of eligibility to vote: 
  2.4      (1) when the offender is placed on supervised release under 
  2.5   section 244.05, or placed on conditional release under section 
  2.6   609.108, subdivision 6, or 609.109, subdivision 7; 
  2.7      (2) when the offender is released from a state correctional 
  2.8   facility and is no longer under the custody of the commissioner 
  2.9   of corrections; and 
  2.10     (3) when the offender is placed on parole. 
  2.11     Sec. 3.  [609.169] [NOTICE OF RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
  2.12  AND ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE.] 
  2.13     (a) When an offender who has been convicted of a felony 
  2.14  offense is released from incarceration in a local correctional 
  2.15  facility, the chief executive officer of the facility must give 
  2.16  the offender a notice in writing that the person is restored to 
  2.17  civil rights for purposes of eligibility to vote. 
  2.18     (b) When an offender who has been committed to the custody 
  2.19  of the commissioner of corrections is released from a state 
  2.20  correctional facility, the commissioner of corrections must 
  2.21  notify the offender of eligibility to vote under section 243.205.