Assembly Bill A5800

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of risk and needs principles in parole decisions

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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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2019-A5800 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S743
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§259-c, 259-e & 259-i, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9960
2017-2018: A1909, S7895
2021-2022: A4452, S4065
2023-2024: A4423, S2308

2019-A5800 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the use of risk and needs assessments in parole decisions; provides a process permitting inmates to correct verifiable factual mistakes or errors in their risk and needs assessments or other non-confidential documents given the board prior to their appearances.

2019-A5800 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5800
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL,  BLAKE,  WEPRIN  -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the use  of  risk  and
   needs principles in parole decisions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 259-c of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   4. establish written procedures for its use in making parole decisions
 as  required  by law. Such written procedures shall incorporate risk and
 needs principles to measure  the  rehabilitation  of  persons  appearing
 before  the  board,  the  likelihood  of  success  of  such persons upon
 release, and [assist] SHALL BE USED BY members of  the  state  board  of
 parole  in  determining  which  inmates may be released to parole super-
 vision. SUCH PRINCIPLES SHALL PROVIDE THE BASIS  UPON  WHICH  THE  BOARD
 SHALL  DETERMINE  IF  THERE  IS  A  REASONABLE PROBABILITY THAT, IF SUCH
 INMATE IS RELEASED, HE OR SHE WILL LIVE AND REMAIN  AT  LIBERTY  WITHOUT
 VIOLATING  THE  LAW. PROCEDURES WHICH INCORPORATE RISK AND NEEDS PRINCI-
 PLES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,  A  RISK  AND  NEEDS
 ASSESSMENT  PREPARED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  TWELVE OF THE
 CORRECTION LAW OR OTHER VALIDATED RISK AND NEEDS  ASSESSMENT  INSTRUMENT
 ADOPTED  BY THE BOARD TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT AN INMATE IS LIKELY TO
 RE-OFFEND UPON RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION.  SUCH RISK AND NEEDS  ASSESS-
 MENT  SHALL COMPRISE PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE OF THE INMATE'S RISK OF RE-OF-
 FENSE. SHOULD THE BOARD CHOOSE TO OVERRIDE SUCH RISK AND  NEEDS  ASSESS-
 MENT  IN  DECIDING  WHETHER  OR  NOT  AN  INMATE WILL LIVE AND REMAIN AT
 LIBERTY WITHOUT VIOLATING THE LAW, ITS DECISION MUST PROVIDE A DETAILED,
 INDIVIDUALIZED AND NONCONCLUSORY STATEMENT AS TO ITS REASONS FOR DEPART-
 ING FROM THE RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT FINDINGS WHICH SHALL  BE  SUBJECT
 TO  JUDICIAL REVIEW. SUCH OVERRIDE DECISION SHALL NOT BE BASED SOLELY ON
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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