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Assembly Bill A4426

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit time allowances to those incarcerated individuals having completed eighty percent of their original sentence

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2025-A4426 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4616
2023-2024: A3171

2025-A4426 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit time allowances to those incarcerated individuals having completed eighty percent of their original sentence.

2025-A4426 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4426
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to eligibility for
   limited credit time allowances for  incarcerated  individuals  serving
   indeterminate or determinate sentences imposed for specified offenses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  1  of
 section  803-b  of  the correction law is amended by adding a new clause
 (D) to read as follows:
   (D) AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE  FOR  THE  CREDIT
 DEFINED  HEREIN BEFORE HAVING COMPLETED EIGHTY PERCENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL
 SENTENCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
 sentences imposed on and after such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06738-01-5

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