1078-S AMH GRAH OMLI 036

SHB 1078 - H AMD 83

By Representative Graham

SCOPE AND OBJECT 02/24/2021

On page 8, line 20, after "(2)" insert "The department shall, simultaneous with the provision of the required notice under subsection (1) of this section, send written notice of restoration of voting rights to the victims of the crimes for which the person described under subsection (1) of this section was serving a sentence of total confinement under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections. The notice must include information that the person will be released from, or transferred to partial confinement from, total confinement under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and his or her voting rights will be automatically restored.

(3)"

EFFECT: Requires that the Department of Corrections (DOC), at the same time that notice of the process for restoration of voting rights is provided to an offender, notify victims of that offender's crime for which he or she was serving a sentence of total confinement, that the offender will be released from, or transferred to partial confinement from, total confinement under the jurisdiction of the DOC and his or her voting rights will be automatically restored.

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