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                                   5316
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 1, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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 appeals to the state
   board of parole
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 259-I of the executive law, as
 added by chapter 904 of the laws of 1977, paragraph (a)  as  amended  by
 section 11 of part E of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, paragraph (b) as
 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, and paragraph (c) as amended
 by chapter 44 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  Appeals. (a) Except for determinations made upon preliminary hear-
 ings upon allegations  of  violation  of  presumptive  release,  parole,
 conditional release or post-release supervision, all determinations made
 pursuant  to  this  section  may  be  appealed  in accordance with rules
 promulgated by the board. Any board member who participated in the deci-
 sion from which the appeal is taken may not participate  in  the  resol-
 ution  of  that appeal. The rules of the board may specify a time within
 which any appeal shall be taken and resolved.
   (b) Upon an appeal to the board, the incarcerated  individual  may  be
 represented  by an attorney. Where the incarcerated individual is finan-
 cially unable to provide for his or her own attorney,  upon  request  an
 attorney  shall  be  assigned pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph
 (v) of paragraph (f) of subdivision three of this section.
   (c) WHERE THE BOARD HAS MADE A  DETERMINATION  GRANTING  DISCRETIONARY
 RELEASE  TO  AN  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, THE
 CRIME VICTIM OR THE VICTIM'S REPRESENTATIVE, WHERE THE CRIME  VICTIM  IS
 DECEASED  OR  IS  MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED, HAS THE RIGHT TO
 FILE AN APPEAL OF SUCH DETERMINATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULES PROMULGAT-
 ED BY THE BOARD.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (D) All board of parole administrative appeal findings and recommenda-
 tions shall be published within one hundred twenty days of the  determi-
 nation  on a publicly accessible website that includes a word-searchable
 database. The department of corrections and community supervision  shall
 provide  electronic or print copies of such findings and recommendations
 to all correctional facility law libraries on a quarterly basis.  Copies
 of  such  individual  findings  and  recommendations  shall also be made
 available upon written request to  the  department  of  corrections  and
 community supervision. Information which would reveal confidential mate-
 rial  that may not be released pursuant to federal or state law shall be
 redacted from any such website or findings and recommendations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.