S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- 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 executive law, in relation to the composition of the
state board of parole and parole hearing officers
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 259-b of the executive law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
2-A. WITH RESPECT TO MEMBERS APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED ON AND AFTER THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE SHALL BE
SO CONSTITUTED THAT THE PROPORTION OF THE MEMBERS RESIDING IN ANY COUNTY
OF THE STATE SHALL BE REASONABLY EQUIVALENT AND IN THE SAME PROPORTION
AS THE RESIDENT COUNTY OF THE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL POPULATION BEARS
TO THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE STATE.
§ 2. Section 259-d of the executive law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3. WITH RESPECT TO MEMBERS APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED ON AND AFTER THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE SHALL BE
SO CONSTITUTED THAT THE PROPORTION OF THE HEARING OFFICERS RESIDING IN
ANY COUNTY OF THE STATE SHALL BE REASONABLY EQUIVALENT AND IN THE SAME
PROPORTION AS THE RESIDENT COUNTY OF THE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL POPU-
LATION BEARS TO THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE STATE.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01563-01-3