Assembly Bill A10360

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes merit time allowance credits and certain administrative privileges credits for local correctional facilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A10360 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9122
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 24-A §§810 - 814, Cor L; amd §70.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A2484, S216
2021-2022: A4251, S606

2017-A10360 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes merit time allowance credits and certain administrative privileges credits for local correctional facilities for eligible inmates.

2017-A10360 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10360
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 17, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the correction law and the penal law, in relation to
   establishing merit time allowance credits and  certain  administrative
   privileges credits for local correctional facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new article  24-A
 to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 24-A
          MERIT TIME ALLOWANCE CREDITS AND CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE
           PRIVILEGES CREDITS FOR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
 SECTION 810. DEFINITIONS.
         811. MERIT TIME ALLOWANCE CREDIT ACCRUAL AND APPLICATION.
         812. FORFEITURE OF MERIT TIME ALLOWANCE CREDIT.
         813. CERTAIN  ADMINISTRATIVE  PRIVILEGES  CREDITS FOR INELIGIBLE
                INMATES.
         814. RECORD KEEPING.
   § 810. DEFINITIONS. AS USED IN THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL
 HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "CREDIT" MEANS A REDUCTION OF TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN  THE  AMOUNT  OF
 TIME  AN  INMATE  MUST  SERVE IN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ON THE INMATE'S
 SENTENCE UPON CONVICTION; AND
   2. "ELIGIBLE INMATE" MEANS AN INMATE IN THE CUSTODY OF THE SHERIFF  OF
 A  LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  WHO  IS  SERVING  ONE OR MORE DEFINITE
 SENTENCES OF ONE YEAR OR LESS OR WHO IS DETAINED PENDING TRIAL, SENTENCE
 OR OTHER DISPOSITION AND WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE  MERIT  TIME  ALLOWANCE
 CREDIT  PROGRAM ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH
 INMATE IS NOT CONVICTED ON THE INSTANT CHARGES OF AN A-1 FELONY OFFENSE,
 OTHER THAN AN A-1 FELONY OFFENSE  DEFINED  WITHIN  ARTICLE  TWO  HUNDRED
 TWENTY  OF THE PENAL LAW, A VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 70.02 OF THE PENAL LAW, MANSLAUGHTER IN  THE  SECOND  DEGREE,  VEHICULAR
 MANSLAUGHTER  IN  THE SECOND DEGREE, VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE FIRST
 DEGREE, CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE, ANY OFFENSE  DEFINED  IN  ARTICLE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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