Assembly Bill A6663

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to enacting Ramona's Law

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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-A6663 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-i, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8382
2023-2024: A8259

2019-A6663 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that in the case of a defendant sentenced for certain violent felony offenses, the state parole board shall reconsider their findings about a defendant where parole is denied every sixty months.

2019-A6663 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6663
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to enacting "Ramona's
   Law"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Ramona's Law."
   §  2.  Subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
 259-i of the executive law, as amended by section 38-f-1 of subpart A of
 part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) Except as provided in subparagraph  (ii)  of  this  paragraph,  at
 least  one  month  prior  to  the date on which an inmate may be paroled
 pursuant to subdivision one of section 70.40 of the penal law, a  member
 or  members  as  determined  by  the rules of the board shall personally
 interview such inmate and determine whether he OR SHE should be  paroled
 in  accordance  with the guidelines adopted pursuant to subdivision four
 of section two hundred fifty-nine-c of this article. If  parole  is  not
 granted upon such review, the inmate shall be informed in writing within
 two  weeks of such appearance of the factors and reasons for such denial
 of parole. Such reasons shall be given in detail and not  in  conclusory
 terms.  The  board shall specify a date not more than twenty-four months
 from such determination for reconsideration, and the  procedures  to  be
 followed  upon  reconsideration  shall be the same, PROVIDED, HOWEVER IN
 THE CASE OF  A  DEFENDANT  SENTENCED  FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  VIOLENT  FELONY
 OFFENSE,  THE BOARD SHALL SPECIFY A DATE NOT MORE THAN SIXTY MONTHS FROM
 SUCH DETERMINATION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND THE PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED
 FOR RECONSIDERATION SHALL BE THE SAME. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SECTION
 AN  "ELIGIBLE  VIOLENT  FELONY  OFFENSE" SHALL MEAN A CONVICTION FOR THE
 CLASS A-I FELONIES OF: MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE AS DEFINED IN  SECTION
 125.27 OF THE PENAL LAW WHERE A SENTENCE OTHER THAN DEATH OR LIFE IMPRI-
 SONMENT  WITHOUT  PAROLE  IS  IMPOSED;  AGGRAVATED  MURDER AS DEFINED IN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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