Senate Bill S4922

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides for family members of a crime victim and interested parties to make statements to members of the parole board

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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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2021-S4922 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6983
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §440.50, CP L; amd §259-i, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S730
2011-2012: S2946
2013-2014: S4153
2015-2016: S4625
2017-2018: S6200, A8444
2019-2020: S1782, A7315
2023-2024: S4188

2021-S4922 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for family members of a crime victim and interested parties to make statements to members of the parole board; provides that such oral statement shall be made to the members of the state board of parole who will determine whether the defendant is released.

2021-S4922 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4922 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4922
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 18, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and  the  executive  law,  in
   relation  to  requiring  that all family members of a crime victim and
   all interested parties who want to give a victim impact  statement  to
   parole board members be allowed to do so
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 440.50 of the criminal procedure law, as  added  by
 chapter 496 of the laws of 1978, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 193
 of  the  laws of 2017, and subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 14 of the
 laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
 § 440.50 Notice to crime victims, FAMILY MEMBERS OF A CRIME VICTIM OR AN
            INTERESTED PARTY of case disposition.
   1. Upon the request of a victim of a crime, A FAMILY MEMBER OF A CRIME
 VICTIM OR AN INTERESTED PARTY, or in any event in all cases in which the
 final disposition includes a conviction of a violent felony  offense  as
 defined  in  section 70.02 of the penal law, a felony defined in article
 one hundred twenty-five of such law, or a felony defined in article  one
 hundred  thirty  of  such law, the district attorney shall, within sixty
 days of the final disposition of the case, inform the victim OR A FAMILY
 MEMBER OF A CRIME VICTIM OR AN  INTERESTED  PARTY  WHO  REQUESTS  TO  BE
 INFORMED  by letter of such final disposition. If such final disposition
 results in the commitment of the defendant to the custody of the depart-
 ment of corrections  and  community  supervision  for  an  indeterminate
 sentence,  the notice provided to the crime victim, A FAMILY MEMBER OF A
 CRIME VICTIM OR AN INTERESTED PARTY shall also inform [the  victim]  HIM
 OR  HER  of  his  or her right to submit a written, audiotaped, or vide-
 otaped victim impact statement to  the  department  of  corrections  and
 community  supervision  or to meet personally with [a member] MEMBERS of
 the state board of parole WHO WILL DETERMINE WHETHER  THE  DEFENDANT  IS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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