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Assembly Bill A7975

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the length of time the board of parole maintains records of parole interviews and hearings

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2019-A7975 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-i, Exec L

2019-A7975 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the length of time the board of parole maintains records of parole interviews and hearings.

2019-A7975 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7975
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALKER -- (at request of the Board of Parole) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to setting the period for
   retaining verbatim records of interviews and hearings
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 6 of section 259-i of the
 executive law, as added by section 1 of part T of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) The [chairman] CHAIRPERSON of the board of parole  shall  maintain
 SUCH  VERBATIM  records  of  all parole interviews and hearings FOR EACH
 OFFENDER DURING THE COURSE OF HIS OR HER SENTENCE AND for  a  period  of
 [twenty-five  years]  SEVEN  YEARS  from the date of the [parole release
 interview or until] expiration OR DISCHARGE of  [the  maximum  term  of]
 SUCH sentence OR THE DEATH OF SUCH OFFENDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09064-01-9

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