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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S1309
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S1309 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง851, Cor L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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2009-S1309 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1309 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the correction law, in relation to eligible inmates for temporary release programs PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : To conform the law to deny the privilege of work release programs to individuals, convicted of similar offenses. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Amends section 851 (2) of the Corrections law to include bail jumping as an offense which will preclude an individual from eligibility for work release programs. STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF BILL : Currently, the Corrections law precludes individuals that have been convicted of escape and absconding offenses from participating in work release programs. There is no logical reason why those individuals t.hat have been convicted of bail jumping offenses should be permitted to benefit from the privilege of work release programs. This amendment is necessary to provide the Board of Parole with the statutory authority to fully investigate an individual applicant for a certificate of relief from disabilities. Current statute dictates that no certificate may be issued unless the Board is satisfied that a
2009-S1309 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1309 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 28, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to eligible inmates for temporary release programs THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 851 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 60 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 2. "Eligible inmate" means a person confined in an institution who is eligible for release on parole or who will become eligible for release on parole or conditional release within two years. Provided, however, that a person under sentence for an offense defined in paragraphs [a] (A) and [b] (B) of subdivision one of section 70.02 of the penal law, where such offense involved the use or threatened use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument shall not be eligible to participate in a work release program until he or she is eligible for release on parole or who will be eligible for release on parole or conditional release within eighteen months. In the case of a person serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment imposed pursuant to the penal law in effect after September one, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, for the purposes of this article parole eligibility shall be upon the expiration of the minimum period of imprisonment fixed by the court or where the court has not fixed any period, after service of the minimum period fixed by the state board of parole. If an inmate is denied release on parole, such inmate shall not be deemed an eligible inmate until he OR SHE is within two years of his or her next scheduled appearance before the state parole board. In any case where an inmate is denied release on parole while participating in a temporary release program, the department shall review the status of the inmate to determine if continued placement in EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07318-01-9
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