Senate Bill S808

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to controlled substances and indeterminate sentences; to the expansion of merit time; repealer

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction 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-S808 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3955
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803, rpld §803-b, Cor L; amd §41, Chap 738 of 2004; amd §632-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2932, A6487
2011-2012: S338, A154
2013-2014: S1377, A4198
2015-2016: S980, A2641
2017-2018: S4260, A3351
2021-2022: S4702, A2241
2023-2024: S4326, A1392

2019-S808 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to controlled substances and indeterminate sentences; relates to the expansion of merit time and repeals provisions relating to the allowance of limited credit time for inmates.

2019-S808 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S808 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    808
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime
   and Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction law, chapter 738 of the laws of 2004
   amending the correction law and  other  laws  relating  to  controlled
   substances  and  indeterminate  sentences,  and  the executive law, in
   relation to expanding eligibility in the merit time allowance  program
   for  all  inmates except those serving a sentence of life imprisonment
   without parole, murder in the first degree, incest, an act of  terror-
   ism,  aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate, or an attempt
   or conspiracy to commit any such offense, to earn  merit  time  allow-
   ance;  and  to  repeal section 803-b of the correction law relating to
   limited credit time allowances
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iv) of paragraph (d) of subdi-
 vision  1 of section 803 of the correction law, as added by section 7 of
 chapter 738 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as follows:
   (i) Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this  paragraph,  every
 person  under the custody of the department or confined in a facility in
 the department of mental hygiene serving an  indeterminate  sentence  of
 imprisonment  with a minimum period of one year or more or a determinate
 sentence of imprisonment of  one  year  or  more  [imposed  pursuant  to
 section  70.70  or 70.71 of the penal law,] may earn a merit time allow-
 ance.
   (ii) Such merit time allowance shall not be available  to  any  person
 serving  [an  indeterminate]  A  sentence  [authorized for an A-I felony
 offense, other than an A-I felony offense defined in article two hundred
 twenty of the penal law, or any sentence imposed for  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,  vehicu-
 lar  manslaughter  in  the first degree, criminally negligent homicide,]
              

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