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Senate Bill S209

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires inmates incarcerated for a class A-I felony, requesting a delay of their parole hearing, to submit such request to the state board of parole

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2015-S209 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง259-i, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S1209
2013-2014: S987

2015-S209 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires inmates incarcerated for a class A-I felony, requesting a delay of their parole hearing, to submit such request to the state board of parole.

2015-S209 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S209 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   209

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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 executive law, in relation to inmate requests to
  reschedule a parole hearing

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 259-i of the executive law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
  (A-1) NO DELAY OR RESCHEDULING OF AN INTERVIEW SCHEDULED  PURSUANT  TO
PARAGRAPH  (A)  OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE GRANTED UPON THE REQUEST OF
AN INMATE WHO IS INCARCERATED BY REASON OF A CONVICTION OF A  CLASS  A-I
FELONY, UNLESS, NOT LESS THAN TEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED INTERVIEW,
SUCH  INMATE  SHALL  HAVE SUBMITTED A REQUEST THEREFOR IN WRITING TO THE
STATE BOARD OF PAROLE STATING THE REASON FOR SUCH REQUEST AND THE  STATE
BOARD SHALL HAVE APPROVED THE REQUEST FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN.
  SHOULD  EXIGENT  CIRCUMSTANCES ARISE PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED INTERVIEW,
BUT AFTER THE TEN DAY PERIOD, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY
WHERE  THE  INMATE IS INCARCERATED MAY, ON BEHALF OF THE INMATE, REQUEST
TO RESCHEDULE THE INTERVIEW BASED UPON GOOD CAUSE  NOT  KNOWN  TEN  DAYS
PRIOR.    IF SUCH REQUEST IS APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD, SUCH INTERVIEW
SHALL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE NEXT DATE THAT  THE  SAME  ASSIGNED  PAROLE
BOARD  MEMBER WILL BE RETURNING TO THAT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY TO CONDUCT
INTERVIEWS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided that,  effective  immediately,  any
rules  and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act
on its effective date are authorized and directed to be  amended,  added
and/or repealed on or before such date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02156-01-5

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