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SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1414  FILED ON: 1/16/2025
      SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 7
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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  PRESENTED BY:
  Liz Miranda
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
        Court assembled:
  The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying
proposal for constitutional amendment:
  Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to voting rights.
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  PETITION OF:
NAME:  DISTRICT/ADDRESS:
Liz Miranda  Second Suffolk
Patricia D. Jehlen  Second Middlesex  2/26/2025
Adam Gómez  Hampden  3/25/2025
Joanne M. Comerford  Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester  3/31/2025
Erika Uyterhoeven  27th Middlesex  4/9/2025
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  SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1414  FILED ON: 1/16/2025
  SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 7
    By Ms. Miranda, a petition (accompanied by proposal for constitutional amendment, Senate, No.
    7) of Liz Miranda, Patricia D. Jehlen, Adam Gómez, Joanne M. Comerford and others for a
    legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to voting rights. Election Laws.
  [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
  SEE SENATE, NO. 8 OF 2023-2024.]
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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  In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
  (2025-2026)
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    Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to voting rights.
  A majority of all the members elected to the Senate and House of Representatives, in
    joint session, hereby declares it to be expedient to alter the Constitution by the adoption of the
    following Article of Amendment, to the end that it may become a part of the Constitution [if
    similarly agreed to in a joint session of the next General Court and approved by the people at the
    state election next following]:
  ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT.
1  Article III of the Amendments to the Constitution, as amended, is hereby further
2   amended by striking out the words “, excepting persons who are incarcerated in a correctional
3   facility due to a felony conviction, and”, inserted by Article CXX of the Amendments to the
4   Constitution.
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