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Committee postpones bill to remove financial barriers to restoring voting rights
Summary
Senate Bill 3 36, to remove court costs and permit people on child-support plans to regain voting rights, was rolled a week after testimony from formerly incarcerated voters and debate about crime categories and the scope of restoration.
Senate Bill 3 36, sponsored by Leader Ackbery, seeks to remove court costs as a barrier to restoring voting rights and to allow people actively on child-support payment plans to regain suffrage; the committee agreed to roll the bill one week to resolve overlap with other restoration proposals.
Ackbery described three principal changes in the bill: 1) removing court costs as a precondition for restoration of voting rights, while leaving the obligation to repay unchanged; 2) allowing individuals who are making child-support payments to be eligible…
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