Assembly Bill A7015

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A7015 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5283
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-i, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4319
2023-2024: S4335

2025-A7015 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger; provides if such individual is convicted of a crime prior to their twenty-second birthday for which they were sentenced to a period of incarceration greater than 20 years, they shall be eligible for parole after fifteen years of incarceration.

2025-A7015 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7015
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to parole eligibility for
   crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  ANY
 PERSON  CONVICTED  OF  A  CRIME  OR CRIMES WHICH THEY COMMITTED PRIOR TO
 THEIR TWENTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY AND FOR WHICH THEY WERE SENTENCED TO  SERVE
 A  PERIOD  OF  INCARCERATION GREATER THAN TWENTY YEARS SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
 FOR PAROLE AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS OF INCARCERATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09736-02-5

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