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Assembly Bill A244

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires the members of the state board of parole, and parole hearing officers to be composed of a proportionate share of residents

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2017-A244 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§259-b & 259-d, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3521
2011-2012: A3211
2013-2014: A4697
2015-2016: A6500
2019-2020: A36
2021-2022: A252
2023-2024: A6646
2025-2026: A7151

2017-A244 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the membership of the state board of parole, and parole hearing officers to be composed of a proportionate share of residents of each county to reflect the state's inmate population.

2017-A244 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    244
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HOOPER,
   RIVERA, TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the composition of the
   state board of parole and parole hearing officers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 259-b of the executive law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A. WITH RESPECT TO MEMBERS APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED ON AND AFTER THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE  SHALL  BE
 SO CONSTITUTED THAT THE PROPORTION OF THE MEMBERS RESIDING IN ANY COUNTY
 OF  THE  STATE SHALL BE REASONABLY EQUIVALENT AND IN THE SAME PROPORTION
 AS THE RESIDENT COUNTY OF THE INMATE POPULATION BEARS TO THE TOTAL POPU-
 LATION OF THE STATE.
   § 2. Section 259-d of the executive law is amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  WITH  RESPECT TO MEMBERS APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED ON AND AFTER THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE  SHALL  BE
 SO  CONSTITUTED  THAT THE PROPORTION OF THE HEARING OFFICERS RESIDING IN
 ANY COUNTY OF THE STATE SHALL BE REASONABLY EQUIVALENT AND IN  THE  SAME
 PROPORTION  AS THE RESIDENT COUNTY OF THE INMATE POPULATION BEARS TO THE
 TOTAL POPULATION OF THE STATE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06328-01-7

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