05-R
340
2005 -- S 0458 AS AMENDED
Enacted 06/28/05
J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N
TO APPROVE AND
PUBLISH AND TO SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION (ELECTIONS)
Introduced By: Senators Metts, Pichardo, C. Levesque, and Perry
Date
Introduced: February 10, 2005
RESOLVED,
That a majority of all members elected to each house of the general
assembly
voting therefore, the following amendment to the Constitution of the state be
proposed
to
the qualified electors of the state in accordance with the provisions of
Article XIV of the
Constitution
for their approval and that it take the place of Article II, Section 1 which is
hereby
amended
to read as follows:
SECTION
1. Persons entitled to vote. – Every citizen of the United State of the age of
eighteen
years or over who has had residence and home in this state for thirty days next
preceding
the
time of voting, who has resided thirty days in the town or city from which such
citizen desires
to
vote, and whose name shall be registered at least thirty days next preceding
the time of voting
as
provided by law, shall have the right to vote for all offices to be elected and
on all questions
submitted
to the electors, except that no person who has been lawfully adjudicated to be
non
compos
mentis shall be permitted to vote. No felon person who is
incarcerated in a correctional
facility
upon a felony conviction shall be
permitted to vote until completion of such felon's
sentence,
served or suspended, and of parole or probation regardless of a nolo contendere
plea.
person
is discharged from the facility. Upon
such completion discharge, such person's right to
vote
shall be restored. The general assembly may provide by law for shorter state
and local
residence
requirements to vote for electors for president and vice president of the
United States.
RESOLVED,
That this amendment shall take, in the Constitution of the state, the place of
Section
1, Article II of the Constitution;
It
is further
RESOLVED,
That the said proposition of amendment shall be submitted to the electors
for
their approval or rejection at the next statewide general election. The voting
places in the
several
cities and towns shall be kept open during the hours required by law for voting
therein for
general
officers of the state; and be further
RESOLVED,
That the secretary of state shall cause the said proposition of amendment to
be
published as a part of the resolution in the newspapers of the state prior to
the date of the said
meetings
of the said electors; and the said proposition shall be inserted in the
warrants or notices
to
be issued previous to said meetings of the electors for the purpose of warning
the town, ward,
or
district meetings, and said proposition shall be read by the town, ward, or
district meetings to
be
held as aforesaid; and be it further
RESOLVED,
That the town, ward, and district meetings to be held as aforesaid shall be
warned,
and the list of voters shall be canvassed and made up, and the said town, ward,
and
district
meetings shall be conducted in the same manner as now provided by law for the
town,
ward, and district meetings for the elections of
general officers of the state.
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LC01373
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